Internet Authors don't need timing
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Of all the useless advice given to would-be authors, perhaps the most unhelpful is the idea that to be a successful author you need 'timing'. That is, your great idea for a novel has to hit the public consciousness at a time that makes your story relevant to them. An example might be, for instance, that right now, in the autumn months of 2007, I'm working on a thriller that starts from the proposition that Princess Diana was deliberately murdered in 1997 in Paris by a combination of national security organisations. I started working on a synopsis a couple of months ago, and I've got a number of chapters under my belt. Now I look at the TV News and notice that a new Inquest has started in London into the death of the Royal lady. What luck! Well, no. If my book was in the bookshop right now |
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