All Authors are terrible writers.
I was finally published in a magazine recently, and though it seems like a small thing, it's huge in the world of authoring. If I've learned anything over the last 3 years of submitting my work to agents and magazines, it's that having someone pick up your stuff and actually give it a shot, let alone publish it, is the hardest thing about trying to make this a career for yourself. Being an Author isn't easy, even the great Stephen King said in his book, "On Writing", that you either have it or you don't. Stephen King took years to get anything published. It wasn't until his mid-20s that he had Carrie picked up, and that was 10 years after he started writing and submitting work to magazines. He even threw out the original manuscript for it; his wife was the one who grabbed it, read it, and told him it was good. My point is, very rarely does this happen overnight. If you think you have it, go for it because you never really know. Any career authors I...