Misleading Powers in the Industry
There are people in the industry who want to help, seem to want to help, and some who want to take advantage. These last, and possibly even the ones you aren’t sure of, end up giving writers added anxiety and worry. There was once an article I had read from the Horror Writers Association from Edo van Belkom: http://horror.org/writetips/writetips-vanbelkom.htm This is a great piece from his book about writing, and it may come across as discouraging, but only to the ones not serious about writing horror fiction--or any fiction for that matter... Or let's even go further and say for anything in the art and entertaining industry. He keeps it real and it still comes across as encouraging. There are others, though, that appear to want to scare writers into thinking they can't do it, that they need their expertise, or service. I'm not going to go deep into who, but they are out there. And if something seems too good to be true...