Re: Stephen King's 10 tips to successful writing

>      Agents get 10% of monies earned by their clients.  10% of nothing is
> nothing.  Agents also have to pay the rent.  Beginning writers do not
> contribute to that or any other necessity of life.  Flog your stories around
> yourself.  If you've done a novel, send around query letters to publishers,
> one by one, and follow up with sample chapters and/or the manuscript
> complete.  and remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writer's and Agents,
> learned by bitter personal experience; you don't need one until you're making
> enough for someone to steal....and if you're making that much, you'll be able
> to take your pick of good agents.
> 12.  If it's bad, kill it.
>      When it comes to people, mercy killing is against the law.  When it
> comes to fiction, it is the law.