I have seen this statistic and want to know how you feel about it.
2006-08-30 18:59:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
So, what do you do to get published? I would try getting myself a track record by getting parts (chapters?) of my work published in periodicals. There's a good book called Novel and Short Story Writers guide (or something like that) that can help you get started.
2006-08-30 19:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by Roy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's 99.5%. And 95% of manuscript submissions to publishers are incredibly awful (I've seen a lot where the "author" had at least one spelling error in every paragraph!). Of the remaining 5% that are quite good, only 1/10th get published. If you write a good peice you have 10% chance of getting it accepted at each publisher you submit to. Submit to 20 publishers and you have a good chance. But that only if it is very very good!
2006-08-31 03:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that has to be a statisticians best guess, because there's no way that who ever came up with that number would know who in this world is an unpublished author. so no, it's not true and i doubt anybody who says that they can find the percentage of people who take part in something that can't be tracked.
2006-08-31 05:16:39 · answer #3 · answered by hey_finny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing that the percentage is actually higher than that.
2006-08-31 02:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Arrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im surprised its that low.
2006-08-31 02:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by Kyle M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋