7th July 2016 | for Creatives | the successful artist, writing, editors, value the art, Lola Augustine Brown |
"People die of exposure. As prestigious as you may think writing for certain websites may be, most editors know exactly what websites are legit and pay their writers. They know you likely gave it away for free—which is definitely not how the pros conduct themselves."
"I wish all writers realized that agents, publishers, book doctors, vanity presses, and how-to seminars, have a cost attached to them—sometimes a very high cost—with zero guarantees. You can be a writer, and have writer be a part of your identity, without any of them."
"If you do care about having a go at this writing thing as a proper career, do not write for exposure. Exposure cannot be measured, and you might as well write for any number of invisible things: the dreams of sleeping kittens, perhaps, or mystical unicorn turds. You should always be getting something measurable for your writing."
"It's just never been a better time to be a writer. It's a world of opportunity. You can do whatever you want. You can do it however you want. It's magical to [say], 'You know what? I'm going to write a new adult series'—and then write it. It's amazing. I don't have to convince anyone, I don't have to sell anyone on it. I don't have to run it by an agent or a publisher. I'll just do it."
"I've always maintained that no publisher should make more money off of a book than the writer does. They publish thousands of books a year—but this is the only one (or two) I'm going to do. This also applies to the Amazons of the world. We the writers should be king of the hill because we provide the content."
"An abandoned story at page one or page 356 has the same value as a story you never wrote in the first place."
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