ThomasLitchford

I wrote in the previous post that if a writer has talent, s/he will write. Good grief! What an over-simplification!

Writing takes more (or less) than talent. It takes desire. Perhaps more than talent. People who some would say have no talent still write, and write a lot. People who have talent but no drive write almost nothing.

So that’s what every writer is up against: is it talent or drive or (please oh please) is it both? That is what the publication hurdles are in place to determine. Writers who are honest with themselves can admit this.

I just can’t get on board with all the excuses writers come up with about why they can’t write or can’t get published. Over 30,000 new hardcover titles are published every year. Over 50,000 if you include trade paperbacks. Polls estimate there are between 6 and 8 million unpublished novels in bottom drawers. Ponder that for a minute.