Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought