Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
I do have trouble with titles.
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.