- Don't read anything (and boast about that).
- Claim everybody is writing a book (they're not).
- Claim anybody can get published these days (not much help if you've just received another rejection!).
- Don't pay them!
- Close libraries.
- Claim you love every genre of fiction except the one your writer works in.
- By publishing a celebrity book where it is clear the only reason it was published was because of the celebrity name attached to it.
- By bringing out books with bad standards of grammar, spelling etc.
- When someone says something along the lines of "you must work really hard" and then go on to talk about their own work and at some length.
- By dismissing children's literature, forgetting that without a love of books instilled in childhood most don't go on to develop a love of books. Children's authors lay down the foundations of audiences for writers of fiction for YA and beyond.
- When other authors indulge in sock puppetry. Writing can be hard enough without this kind of behaviour creeping in.
- By closing bookshops.
- When someone assumes writing a short story can't take long because it is a shorter work.
- By dismissing short stories as unimportant and assuming only novels count for anything. Novels are of course important but so are short stories. They are different forms of storytelling, that's all.
- By assuming because an author has been published online, they've picked this route because they can't be published in print.
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