I was sitting in an auditorium recently, listening to a panel of veterans in the field of writing share their thoughts on the publishing industry. When asked a question about the recent surge in indie publishing, one author expounded on his views on “the problem with self-published authors”. Paraphrasing a fellow author, he advised that, “you have to write a million words of crap before you write anything good.” This is true, he explained, because new writers often write cr