I stumbled upon this funny bit of blogging from raleva31 on livejournal. I never seem to get enough of these real life stories of how inept some people are when it comes to the process of finding an agent.

Things are looking up for vampire Anna Larkin. A ship has come! But who are these would be rescuers, and what will be the price of getting off this in-the-middle-of-no-where jungle planet? She’s about to find out as I enter into Part Two of the novel. I didn’t plan for it to coincide with NaNo update part two, but there you go! I shouldn’t get to Part Three of the novel until update four. I’ve planned for updates every five days in November. To finish the book, I’ll need to keep writing after Nano, all the way to December 20th. Then I plan to fully collapse and veg, like an empty tube of toothpaste.

Sometimes the redundancy of saying the same thing twice can be hysterical. I used to keep a mental list of these in high school, but now I only remember a few of them.

One of the pieces of advice often given to aspiring writers is: Don’t Write. Writers in general don’t make much money. Add onto that, the whim of the market, the lack of control as to what happens once the story is out of the door, and the effort of producing and polishing a novel when there’s no "boss" standing over you making it so.