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interested in the subject matter without offending those people's parents. Anything
designed with being inoffensive as its primary goal isn't going to be worth your time
тАУ life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
And while you're doing all this reading and self-educating, keep writing. Have the
guts to believe in yourself, have the guts to ignore the experts who want your money,
have the guts to take a chance on making your dream a reality. You can do it.

Am I sure?
Yes, I am.

You see, I'm a full-time professional writer, and I don't have a college education
either.




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Ideas: A Hundred for a Dollar
So if I offered to sell you a hundred novel ideas for a buck, would that be a good deal,
a fair deal, or a lousy deal?
It would be a lousy deal. Trust me on this one. I can come up with a hundred usable
ideas for novels without breaking a sweat. So can you. So can anyone. Novel ideas
aren't unique, they aren't rare, they aren't breathtaking. They are the nitrogen of the
idea world тАУ plentiful, everywhere, and only useful if you know what to do with
them.
Why do I mention this? Because it will be a rare conversation I have with a beginning
writer that doesn't include within it the question, тАЬHow do I keep other people from
stealing my ideas?тАЭ or тАЬHow do I copyright my ideas?тАЭ
If you aspire to write novels and you're worried about protecting your ideas, breathe a
deep sigh of relief now. You don't have to worry anymore. Every idea you're ever
going to have for the writing of your novels has already been written more times than
you can count. And will continue to be written long after you and I are dust (if
civilization doesn't blow the planet into oblivion.) And that is fine. Ideas aren't the
engines that make novels run.
To prove this to you, I'm going to throw out a free idea for a novel. Here it is. A man
falls in love with a woman he can't have, and determines to have her anyway.

Now let's have three different writers take that idea and run with it. Writer one wants
to do a comic novel, so he decides that the man, in order to be get past the
overbearing family to the woman he loves, disguises himself as a woman, takes up
residence in the household as a servant, and waits for his big chance to make his
presence known to the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately, the woman's brother
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