raw manuscripts

[Steerpike]

That's right, they haven't read my story about zebra unicorns! By golly, I'll just scribble it in chocolate on some toilet paper and leave it in y publisher's mailbox along with a basket of kittens I scooped up from the alley behind my apartment!

Well, it is Caturday, so it would be timely.

[Christopher Wright]

There's always that one old guy who smokes a cigar a day, drinks half a bottle of whiskey by noon, eats nothing but bacon, red meat, and lard, and lives to be 98. Which means you'll probably run across someone who sends in a raw manuscript that's so effing brilliant he or she gets signed and makes a million dollars. And someone will read about that person and decide "well, that's the way to do it then."[1]

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[1]And will then die of a heart attack because he's been doing nothing but smoking cigars, drinking whiskey, and eating bacon, red meat, and lard.

[edd]

LOL you all crack me up with your comments =P