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The ability of somebody to learn.

Do you really think that great writers were just born, pen in hand, ready to write the great literary classic? No? Most started out, I suspect, guilty of making many of the mistakes listed here. If they had taken your advice and not persevered and honed their skills, we’d have nothing to read at all! Is this your goal? Is it as simple as “gee I can’t write, I don’t want to put the practice in to improve, so I’ll discourage every other wanna-be author as well, then we can all be losers together”

But you know what? I’m going to be positive here and use you spiteful little blog as a learning tool. I will approach each item on the list and check if I’m doing it. That’s If I agree with it of course. (your list of cliché’s is bull)

First up, reason 1. Yep, just checked, I’ve got 4 books that meet the criteria. Check.

There’s nothing “wrong” with established authors. But if you’re an unpublished writer and your reading consists entirely of established authors, you don’t know what type and standard of new writing is being accepted for publication these days.

You can learn from the masters, but if you don’t understand the current market for new authors, you dramatically worsen the already terrible odds of being published.

You can read Theory #1 for a more detailed explanation. It wasn’t published before 2001, though.