In my mind publishing is the final stop on the road of writing. I start with brainstorming and free writes. Then a outline is made up and a rough draft is formed. The drft goes through three differnt people who are knowledgable about the topic I am writing. Then I do a final proof read and print out a final copy. Just because it is a final copy doesn't mean that it is publishable. So many books and stories are worked over with a fine tooth comb and made to be perfect. Final copy is not good enough.
It used to be that very few people could write let alone a published author. If you wrote a book you were gold. Today the autobiography genre has exploded. Anyone can write a book. Does this mean that these books have some quality? No. Some of the biggest idiots in the world have written books and I have no idea how they were published. "The Girls Next Door" is a great example of how publishing quality material has gone by the wayside. Two of Mr. Heffnef's former girlfriends have written books that have become fairly popular. My view: Who cares? Publishing material one hundred years ago is so much more intellctual than Kendra's Autobiography. True literature had gone bad and is laughable compared to the writers of our pasts. Lets just hope that newly published material exersices or brains a little more.
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