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The horror, the horror...

Carly Watters—Literary Agent

Wherefore?

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Paul Whybrow

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You think writing's a dream job? It's more like a horror film, according to this article by Tim Lott :

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/20/tim-lott-life-as-an-author

The comments at the bottom of the article are worth reading (expand them), particularly the one about the 60% of people who want to be writers, imagining that it’s all J K Rowling easy-peasy wealth and celebrity. It wasn't for her, when she was trying to find a publisher for her first Harry Potter book, though fortunately that turned into a publishing juggernaut which will keep her for the rest of her days.

The John Dos Passos observation quoted made me snort : “Writers are like fleas, they get very little nourishment from one another”.

He plainly needed The Colony!
 
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