دانلود کتاب Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft and Giving it Away: Spoilers as Both Noun & Accusation (An Essay)

Writing GuideKelli Jae Baeli, Indie Author and Publisher with Lesbian Literati Press, and author of 38 books, numerous articles, stories and essays, shares some thoughts about the writing craft and the writer's life.Such as:�"The competition to be a published writer is fierce. The dream of getting published has been overly-romanticized in the media so that many beginning writers think not only that writing is easy, but that they have a good chance of getting a contract from a major house. The odds are, realistically, one in a million-maybe worse than that. We hear about the success stories, not the ones who spend their lives toiling for that dream, to the exclusion of everything else, only to wind up poor, alone, lacking in social skills, and profoundly jaded that life has passed them by. There are so many unpublished writers who pursue this dream, and publishers and agents have had to crack down on the criteria to even LOOK at work sent. And it is very expensive for a writer to submit manuscripts, as I mentioned, and it's time consuming as we have to do this repeatedly, if we ever hope to get traditionally published. You have to pour lots of money into the endeavor over a period of many years, sometimes.�sometimes. And more often than not, this investment does not return.�Often, then, self-publishing is the only option if a writer wants to get her work out there. There's little point in spending your entire life hoping, while your words stay in a drawer. I believe as writers we are meant to honor that talent, and share it, otherwise, what's the point of having it?"**