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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Driddle" data-source="post: 1632555" data-attributes="member: 3447">Another perspective of the publishing dream:According to an online archival search at the newspapers where I've worked, somewhere near 4,000 stories have been published with my byline. ... Seeing my name out in the public like that lost its thrill for me after the first thousand stories or so. It also cured me of any fantasies I had when I was younger of being published in some other media or industry. You know -- been there, done that, whatever it takes to pay the bills. ... A bylined news story can run anywhere from 300 to 2,000 words (depending on page space). So if you take a low average of 500 times 4,000 stories, you're looking at somewhere around 2 million words researched, composed and edited (on daily or weekly deadline!) over the last 15 years. Why in the world would I want to put myself through the same thing for a fantasy novel?</blockquote>