Poetry and Other Bad Habits

Write Your Novel

Any one of us is capable of writing a book, when we have finished that book will it be good enough to send off to a publisher and get snapped up, printed, into the shops and onto the best sellers list. Yes it may be good enough but it probably won’t take the dream path mentioned above.

It is far easier to write a book than get it published, the hardest thing to do is actually getting a publisher to read your book let alone consider it for publishing. They get so many peoples work sent to them that they probably only read a small fraction of them, so to get yours read is one hell of a task. If you have written a book and sent it to plenty of publishers without success, it does not mean that your book is no good.

This goes for any type of book, not just a novel, the same goes for poems and song lyrics. This is the one main reason that puts people off, when it comes to writing a book and understandably so.

But don’t let this put you off, if you want to write a book or poem then go ahead and do it, you can still make it available for the world.

The way to do this is by setting up your own blog. If you have your own blog you can publish what ever you want on it, from poems and stories to your opinion on everyday topics in the news as they happen. You don’t have to wait around for months for a publisher to decide whether they are even going to look at your work. Now that it the obvious advantage but there is a disadvantage as well and that is that you are publishing your work for free.

That said, if you can’t get your work past a publisher then you won’t get paid for it any way and nobody will ever get to read it. On the other hand if you publish your own work on your own blog, you never know you may get such a lot of readers over time that you catch the eye of a publisher any way and you may get approached to get your work published.

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