A group of unpublished authors is called a ....

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Paul Whybrow

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Jun 20, 2015
Cornwall, UK
After having a mammoth final (hah!) editing session of my three completed novels, I set to thinking about collective nouns.

My Cornish detective is quite a spiritual chap, a bit of an animist, for he's investigating murders in the wild landscape and interacting with wildlife, trees and ancient monuments. I'm something of a naturalist myself, so I've had my protagonist observe clatters of jackdaws, a murder of crows and a charm of goldfinches.

I wondered what collective nouns could be applied to writing.

For unpublished authors: a hopefulness—or maybe a hopelessness....or maybe a determination.

For literary agents: a snub—a fussiness—an indifference.

For already established authors: a smugness—a routine—a predictableness.

For publishers: a pomposity—a complaisance—a fleecing.

Any more ideas?
 
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