101 Reasons to Stop Writing

The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong

 
This Month's Demotivator:

Generosity: Your December Demotivator

GENEROSITY
Don’t give copies of your book to your friends or family.
You’ll halve your market.

GENEROSITY Demotivator (Medium)
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Photo by Michael Connors, via MorgueFile.

 

5 Comments

  1. [...] posts about writing, the industry, and writers, you’ll also find a store which includes the writing demotivators to help you on your path to stopping yourself and/or others from [...]

  2. Kim:

    If they really loved you they would pay double.

  3. Kim, they’ve already paid you, over and over, in patience. If you really loved them, you’d burn the manuscript and take them out to dinner a couple of hundred times.

  4. Tandra:

    Only someone who once loved something can hate it so much.

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