LISSA BOLTS

Poor, little, naive me. I thought I could just sit down, put my ideas to paper, and the world would come (in droves) to read it. Ha! There are so many, MANY steps that happen after the ideas are already written, and rewritten, and re-rewritten (you get the idea). Anyway, long story short, I have a boat load of new respect for all the published authors out there! It takes so much more than a good story idea. After you've written at least 70,000 words, the to-do list begins (an