Still deluded

How many new books get uploaded to Amazon or Smashwords every day?Thousands.Every single day of every single week.

Thousands of books by unknowns, wannabe's, those on the road from anonymity.And every single author reckons their work has the chance of becoming the next big thing, the next number one seller.

Yet 99.9% of these will sell nothing, or next to nothing, which is, like, 1, isn't it?Insurmountable odds. Ridiculous in fact.You have to be deluded to think you are going to get anywhere with so much opposition.

There are only X amount of book readers in the world. Y should any of them bother with a book by a Z-lister when there are hundreds being released through proper publishers every year, written by authors at least a few people have heard of?

Might as well give up now.And some will.Some will say fuck that, what's the point, can't be arsed.And I totally understand that point of view. I've even thought it myself.But I can't bring myself to jack it in.Keep writing.

You never know.

But the only way you’ll know for sure that you won’t make it is to stop writing.

So don’t do that.