You Got The Power!
The more you write, the more you realize how hard it is to get anyone to take any notice of you. Newbies often worry that their words are going to have some awful and monumental impact on people - way out of proportion to reality. First time novelists often email me in varying states of panic, asking if it's okay to say this or that. Others are so afraid of putting their name to their own writing, they want to invent pseudonyms - usually just before publication! In case their own words come back to bite them somehow. In today's world, it's hard to even get noticed, let alone raise a stir in people enough to provoke a response. There's about billion new words appearing on the Internet every day. In the real world, probably a billion again appearing in new books, newspapers and magazines. Writers everywhere are trying to read and to be heard, to be taken seriously. And yet, a celebrity's kiss will always be more compelling news. You've got to see ...