I get asked a lot of questions about writing: How to break into the biz, what are the easy ways to get an agent, how to get a manuscript to an editor, would I read somebody's manuscript and critique it, etc. As I've picked up a new nugget of useful advice, I put it in my little file and try to pass on the info to folks as appropriate.

Writer J. Stephen York has taken the time to provide some answers to what just happens to be a lot of the same questions I field on a frequent basis. The thing about his answers is that he's boiled away a lot of the bullshit and tells it to "you" like it is.

Want to see? Then do yourself a favor and read this entry from his blog. If you're at all serious about wanting to be a writer, print it off and tack it up on the wall above your computer.

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

Here endeth the lesson.