Writers Are Stupid
Writing by Jana on Tuesday, 18 of March , 2008 at 8:07 am
Yes, they are.
I came along this post by Nathan Bransford, literary agent, today, and it always shocks me to hear about writers or actors or whomever behaving in the manner described. I suppose it’s people involved in the “arts” in general who exhibit this kind of stupidity, and it’s this same vein of naiveté that leads writers and actors straight into the warm embrace of scam artists just waiting to bilk them out of every dollar they can.
I have no idea how people did anything back in that dark time when “cyberspace” was just a wacky term being used by William Gibson. Falling victim to scams or being clueless about how to approach agents or format a manuscript seems valid when resources were not readily available.
But today? What is your excuse? You don’t have one, and as far as I’m concerned you deserve every bit of derision and/or misfortune that’s coming your way. There’s this tendency to excuse certain idiotic behaviour from “artists” because they’re “following a passion” but so are many other people not trying to make a living from the stage or pen.
And scam artists will continue to operate, so long as the “passionate” continue to act like clueless monkeys.
There are three major websites warning people about writing/publishing scams.
There are countless pages of advice on how to approach an agent.
If you’re really that egomaniacal or moronic to not Google anything and everything before you make a move, you get no empathy from me. Laughter; yes, plenty. But empathy is reserved for people that are not victims of their own doing.
Category: stupid writers
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