Dani Shapiro has written this for the LA Times on how the publishing industry has completely changed in the last twenty-five years, so that the dream of writing you probably grew up on is no longer the dream of publishing you think it is. I can’t tell you how important it is for you to understand this. I just heard yesterday from an award-winning fiction author with numerous published novels whose agent won’t even shop her latest novel around. This is not at all unusual. I know another award-winning fiction author with numerous published novels whose agent stopped shopping her novels several years ago. Now more than ever the only real point to writing is for the joy of it.
But, fortunately, the Bloggess found this, and I think all writers should watch it every single day before they start in.
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