Interesting article on Grisham if you link through the title. I was thinking about authors (almost every author) starts writing and gets a book together and then stumbles through hoards of publishers getting rejected over and over again until they make it big. Grisham was found in Hollywood and then took that momentum to sell 245 million books (6 to me).
The interesting part is that authors have to have a finished product, bloggers don't have to have squat. This is my sixth post, does that make me a blogger like having a final, print ready copy of A Time To Kill in hand looking for a publisher made Grisham a writer. I cannot imagine it does.
The other issue is that Grisham could have stopped writing after A Time To Kill and been more accomplished than most, and yet with bloggers it usually takes a year or more to get momentum from post's together to build a readership and then your work really starts because it is a daily battle to make said readership happy.
My new goal stated to all of you readers (three people stand up) is to get to one hundred posts, if I can get to one hundred posts then at least I have a little momentum behind myself and a little time to hone my craft, until then I am not going to consider myself a blogger. At 100 post I will then consider myself a blogger and start looking for a readership just like an author dare not look for a publisher before a book even exists.
If you are reading this blog now, thanks, and I hope you stick around to see what happens :)
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