“Life has a way of getting away from you. You’re always going to really get going on it next year. Next year I’ll write a novel worth publishing. Next year I’ll start researching publishers again. Hey…I hear publishers are starting to put their information online now. Look how easy that makes it! I can start trying again. But I have to get going on this Ph.D. thesis too. Maybe next year.”
I sympathize with this essay a lot. I expected to be getting published a lot earlier than I did. And in my case, that Ph.D. thesis really did stop me from writing anything commercial for years (I wrote some stories for my gamer friends, though). It wasn’t until I was about ready to go up for associate professor that I was able to think about sending stories out.
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