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Back when I was in college, I attended a talk at a local Barnes and Noble by a fairly well known author.  The topic was “Tips for getting published.”  There were maybe twenty of us there, all budding writers, eager to absorb any professional advice that we could get.  We sat around in a circle, notebooks open, ready to hear his advice.

He wasn’t a particularly friendly man.  His demeanor was rather matter-of-fact as he stood in front of the podium that the store had provided for him.  His gaze indicated that he was not going to welcome eye contact but preferred to speak his piece uninterrupted.

Never having met a well known author before, I had no preconceived notions about how one should behave.  I, like most of the people there, simply wanted to hear what he had to say.

He began by stating that he was going to tell us the story of how he became a successful, published author.  We awaited anxiously.

His story went something like this:

He had never wanted to be an author, never even thought about writing – in fact, he was well established in a completely different field. (I can’t quite remember which field he said he was involved in, but I believe it might have been financial planning.) Read the rest of this entry »