erazmus
Warden

Originality is the big thing that sets a writer's (or any artist's) work apart and is the springboard to huge success, right? Sure it is, thats why every truly original work always sells leaps and bounds ahead of the pack. Everyone knows this.
Um, sure.
It is one of the things people like to say they are looking for. Publishers and Agents are looking for original voices, new angles, fresh stories. They all say that, pretty much, but when I look at who is out on the shelves, who I'm

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Spiraling downward. It's a nasty feeling, to see yourself slipping backward when you try so hard to push forward. If it isn't one thing, it's another. I'm dodging process servers for an unpaid dental bill (the dentists desk-girl said my insurance company approved the procedure, the dentist insisted it couldn't wait, I paid my thirty percent and the insurance company bounced their part, insisting they never approved it. I just don't/haven't had the six hundred bucks, soon to be plus two hundred court

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