What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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