Introduction #1

Most advice about writing fiction (and there is way too much of it) focuses on how to get started, how to improve your writing, how to get published, etc. Some of it is even written by successful, published writers that you have heard of.

Virtually none of this advice focuses on when to give up, when to abandon your ridiculous dreams and get back to paying your taxes.

Face it. Most published fiction is bad. Some is so plain awful that you wonder how anyone wrote it, let alone approved it for publication. Don't tell me it's never crossed your mind how craptacular the unpublished stuff must be.

This blog is dedicated to the thousands of writers out there, labouring in deserved obscurity, murdering forests and supporting the postal system, wondering what the hell they're doing wrong.

I'll tell you. And God help me, I'll make you stop.