So many writers lately seem to be obsessed about being published immediately. You keep hearing everyone talk about being published and just keep rushing the process. Maybe it is because you also hear so many people in self-publishing pushing another angle. They scream, "those traditional people rejected my story so I just went into self-publishing. These authors often wrote one or two books, got frustrated, blamed the system and moved on.
Now, let me share some things that Jane spoke of and I am going to give you one big number.
Got it?
By the time she had sold her first book, she had written 17 novels. Of those 17, she had written them, submitted them numerous times, been rejected far too many times to be counted, rewritten them even more times, cried over them even more times, probably screamed over them even more... but it wasn't until...
...that she was published. And that took time.
I talked to a lot of authors over those four days in Toronto and I told a lot of them the same thing. Not only does writing take time, it takes education and learning the process. If you think about any career out there, you go to school to learn how to do things. You don't just get up one morning and say you are going to be a brain surgeon, lawyer or airplane pilot, right? You got to school. You train from experts. You read books. You attend classes. You practice. You fail and succeed.
And there is absolutely no difference between those careers and writing professionally. This IS a career. This IS a job.
So don't rush it. Train and learn. I promise you. You will be much happier in the long run.
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