I decided to continue writing to improve, as opposed to trying to get a deal. Which pretty much confirmed what I suspected - that if you weren't writing about glittery vampires back then, you weren't on the radar. I thought I might have nailed it about 5 years ago, and shopped that effort, to be told when it got shopped that it was wonderful, but didn't fit with what the market was looking for at that time. So I wrote another, and it wasn't as bad, but it still sucked. I wrote my first fiction 10 years ago, and after four drafts, realized it was awful and should never see the light of day. Actually, I had been writing non-fiction (brochures, ad copy, manuals) decades before, but that didn't really prepare me for creative writing.
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