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On James Frey, many notable authors have you covered. It seems that these writers may well be correct. There should be a business component to a writer's education. We have some of this in genre fiction as well. Desperation or desire to publish will get writers to take less than stellar deals, rather than having their work not shown to the world. No preaching here. A writer has to decide what publishing is worth to them. That said, be careful out there. Use sites like Predators and Editors, one of the many sites to help you avoid stepping into steaming piles of James Frey since 1997.

That's not what I'm talking about today.

It is difficult sometimes to remember why I started writing. The whole of it gets swallowed up in goals and deadlines, things that don't work, revision, kind of the crafty bits. I know there's not enough here to hold me. Believe me, I don't need another thing to wear myself out on.

And yet, I am still here. What's that about?

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