By Arthur J. Burks
This article may do you harm. If it does I am sorry. It may do you good; if it does I'll be happy. Maybe some of the things in this article will startle or dismay you. I ask you to read it then, with an open mind, as something based on the experiences of a writer who has been knocking at the doors of editorial offices for sixteen years.
I began to write to make money. But that was not really true. I began to write because I wanted to be read, to be noticed, to have more people conscious of me, to express myself. I have sold millions of words. I have written other millions of words that did not sell. Why, then, did I write other words -- millions of them -- when experience had proved to me that I could write stuff that would sell?
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Posted by ds at February 13, 2003 05:09 PM
