In order for me to understand how this all works, I’ve had to do a little bit of reading—looking for insight I guess you’d call it. I knew, starting out years ago, that writing didn’t pay the bills; not in the grand scheme of things. But I guess, like every other notable “hack” out there, I always thought that I was different. What I’ve discovered over the last little bit of time (well, since the development of this PC sitting on my desk), is that much like everyone else out there, I’m constantly questioning myself. Self doubt, I guess you’d call it.
When I first began writing and thinking I might be able to sell something, I didn’t have a clue as to how I was supposed to go about it. My first published book was with a “vanity” press as they called them in those days. No publishing house would look at a “vanity” writer, because they were just that, people writing their “memoirs,” or books no one wanted to read because they were published by a “vanity” press. You see where I’m going wi…
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