I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK....
"Everyone has a book in them, but in most cases that's where they should stay." Christopher Hitchens. We all know the above quote or one very similar and it appears that writing a book is on the bucket list of most people. And it is so easy. After all we know that politicians and TV presenters have written books, athletes and footballers, singers and actors, criminals and celebrities, royalty and ratbags. They have written poetry and memoir, nonfiction and fiction...and even picture books. And had these items published. I surmise (or call it an educated guess) that a lot of these people have had 'help' of some description. Ghost writers, editors that push, goad and mould them in the right direction. They have not had to send a piece out into the ether and let it sit in the slush pile, waiting for that reader to pick it up and say 'WE SO NEED TO PUBLISH THIS'. Most (once again an educated guess) have been commissioned to write such and such, o...