Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Writing Right: The Business of Writing

When I began writing back in the Dark Ages, I never understood the phrase, "the business of writing." To me, writing was the last thing in the world I wanted to do as a business. It was far more glamorous than that. It was far more poetic and esoteric and exotic. Writing to me was what it is to many young writers just starting out: a chance to express your creative spirit without bounds.

And a chance to win admiring glances from the opposite sex, too, of course. I must confess: I haven't met...