Most authors are also avid readers. It’s an early love of books and the written word, and how easily a well-written story can take us away into a world of created wholly by an excellent writer, that makes us also want to write. We want to touch readers in the same way we’ve been touched, and we want to tell the types of stories we want to read.
Many would-be writers who started before the advent of the internet are more familiar with the way publishers traditionally worked. The only avenues for short story writers were magazines, anthologies, and once established as an author, perhaps a single-author collection. Novels were sent around to literary agents in the hopes of finding someone with an “in” who could help get you off an editor’s desk and into print.
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