Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
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Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.