- Joined
- Feb 11, 2005
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1. If someone were to ask me, "Hey, Jim, how much do you expect to earn from writing in 2017?" I'd answer, "Ask me in mid-April 2018 and I'll have an idea."
2. Perfect knowledge of how many gutter balls are thrown by all bowlers on an hour-by-hour basis, compiled in state-by-state indexes, and arranged in graphs, charts, and tables, will not make me a better bowler.
3. Consider a novel that is written, is rejected forty times, is sold, and is subsequently reprinted by various publishers three times. How would that book be counted in the books-written:books-published stats?
4. Books are rejected for many reasons, only one of which is "This book stinks." Other reasons include "We only planned to publish fifty books this year, and we've already contracted fifty books," and "This is a wonderful book, but we publish hard-boiled crime fiction, not sensitive portrayals of a young man coming of age in the antebellum South."
2. Perfect knowledge of how many gutter balls are thrown by all bowlers on an hour-by-hour basis, compiled in state-by-state indexes, and arranged in graphs, charts, and tables, will not make me a better bowler.
3. Consider a novel that is written, is rejected forty times, is sold, and is subsequently reprinted by various publishers three times. How would that book be counted in the books-written:books-published stats?
4. Books are rejected for many reasons, only one of which is "This book stinks." Other reasons include "We only planned to publish fifty books this year, and we've already contracted fifty books," and "This is a wonderful book, but we publish hard-boiled crime fiction, not sensitive portrayals of a young man coming of age in the antebellum South."