Am I Purposed to Write?
by Marcia Moston @MarciaMoston I like to encourage people, to inspire them by sharing examples of others who have done something of interest. But today, I�m taking the �misery loves company� approach for those of you who may have returned from a conference high in hopes but are now scraping bottom, or those of you who can�t get even your mother to buy your book. Take heart. Here�s what a few giants who have trod that road before you have to say: �The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.� � John Steinbeck When a book dealer returned over 700 copies of one of his books, Henry David Thoreau wrote, �I now have a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself.� While visiting a zoo, award-winning journalist Paul Dickson noticed saw a sign over a poisonous snake exhibit that said every year in America 1906 people were bitten by a poisonous snake. Dickson quipped that he had written a �snakebite book� because fewer people had ...