That Thing I Never Should Have Done

On caring less about platform and more about craft

Portrait of a Man Writing in His Study by Gustave Caillebotte

For years and years now I’ve heard writers asking questions about how to get published. What can I do to impress an agent? What do I have to do to attract a publisher? With a hundred million billion trillion writers in the world, how do you stand out?

I remember wondering this question myself …