Principle

[ajasont]

No one is forcing you to be creative. No one is demanding you give up your spare time, your extra energy, your social life to do what you want to do. Whether you want to write or draw or make music or paint or make pottery or act or bake fantastic pastry, whatever you deem creative is important to you. You place your own ego on what you’re doing

Comments

[black13]

About 5: What if the story is unpublishable, therefore unsellable, and you run out of markets before it is sold?

[ajasont]

Revise. Go back to step 1 and start something new, when you get to step 5, go back to step 1 and repeat.

It works.

But you knew all that, didn't you? ^__-

[black13]

Revision would violate Rule #3.

That's the single problem with the 5-step-program: it doesn't take the possibility into account that your story is really unpublishable.

These days, I suppose a lot of people would add as #6: "If all else fails, self-publish."