1. Fill up the floor and shelves of all of the closets in your house.
2. Store them on an external device for so long that the technology is obsoite and you have to hire a data recovery company in order to view it again.
3. Copyright all of your thousands of poems, dozens of books, endless shortstories, one novel and handfull of screenplays under ”body of work“ so that for $35 you can copyright the whole kit and kaboodle.
4. When deeply depressed over not being published, use some pages of your rejected work to start a fire in the fireplace. Then open bottle of wine and don’t share it.
5. Pull out any of your work you want to critique and edit, edit, edit – this should take up about a third of your life.
6. Print all of your works out and put them in three ring binders to give yourself the sense of being a published author without the accolades or income.
7. On a really bad days, tear your discarded pages into strips and use them as tolet paper.
8. For inspiration for those time when you have writers block, wallpaper your writing room with pages from your favorite manuscript.
9. Here is a novel idea, finish something and send it out to as many literary agents as you can find every week. Preferably via email so you can afford to send it thousands of times.
10. Cuddle up with your favorite work and read it allowed to someone, even if it is just yourself.
2. Store them on an external device for so long that the technology is obsoite and you have to hire a data recovery company in order to view it again.
3. Copyright all of your thousands of poems, dozens of books, endless shortstories, one novel and handfull of screenplays under ”body of work“ so that for $35 you can copyright the whole kit and kaboodle.
4. When deeply depressed over not being published, use some pages of your rejected work to start a fire in the fireplace. Then open bottle of wine and don’t share it.
5. Pull out any of your work you want to critique and edit, edit, edit – this should take up about a third of your life.
6. Print all of your works out and put them in three ring binders to give yourself the sense of being a published author without the accolades or income.
7. On a really bad days, tear your discarded pages into strips and use them as tolet paper.
8. For inspiration for those time when you have writers block, wallpaper your writing room with pages from your favorite manuscript.
9. Here is a novel idea, finish something and send it out to as many literary agents as you can find every week. Preferably via email so you can afford to send it thousands of times.
10. Cuddle up with your favorite work and read it allowed to someone, even if it is just yourself.
JL Cooper
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