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've questioned on how they were chosen by an agent, or how they got their work picked up, have all told me the same thing.
"It just happened. I was lucky."
In all honesty, most Authors aren't good at writing. When you read something in a book or magazine article, you see something that has been edited and looked over by many people outside the author. The author is the conduit; the people around them are the ones who bring it into reality and make it something for people to read.
There is no formula for winning the author game; all you can do is be persistent and believe in yourself. If you want it, you go for it. Keep writing and keep submitting, even if you get ghosted or rejected 1,000 times. There is always potential for a single moment, and sometimes that's all it takes.
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've questioned on how they were chosen by an agent, or how they got their work picked up, have all told me the same thing.
"It just happened. I was lucky."
In all honesty, most Authors aren't good at writing. When you read something in a book or magazine article, you see something that has been edited and looked over by many people outside the author. The author is the conduit; the people around them are the ones who bring it into reality and make it something for people to read.
There is no formula for winning the author game; all you can do is be persistent and believe in yourself. If you want it, you go for it. Keep writing and keep submitting, even if you get ghosted or rejected 1,000 times. There is always potential for a single moment, and sometimes that's all it takes.
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