Why not be a writer? If the question sounds familiar, it's because it probably is. An organisation called The Writers Bureau has been posing it in national newspaper adverts for years. You know the ones, they begin with the claim that “as a writer, you can earn very good money”, continue with the offer of a full refund of fees if you don't get published and conclude with a picture of “Christina Jones from Oxfordshire”, an apparently satisfied customer, gurning above the quotation: “So far, I have had 16 novels published!”
A novel idea may not be a lucrative one (Sathnam Sangera, The Times 16FEB08)
[What I find most interesting about this article are the comments that follow it.]
About Me
- Lori A. Basiewicz
- Lori Basiewicz has been sequestered in an undisclosed location in the United States’ Heartland. Her friends and fellow writers say it is for her own good and that they will release her when she finally finishes her Master’s thesis, succeeds in marketing her first novel, and completes the first draft of her second novel. In other words, she’s never getting out. Lori periodically escapes protective custody in order to practice aikido. This blog is, quite possibly, her only contact with the outside world.
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1 comments:
"gurning above the quotation"
What? Doesn't anyone proofread any more? Or is gurning a verb I just have never heard before?
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