After the hibernation....this

I thought I will emerge from my forced hibernation, which is actually a rather polite way of camouflaging my current creative barrenness, with this interesting piece I read in the "London Review of Books" website.

Marina Lewycka compared being an unpublished author to being an asylum seeker. ‘You know where you belong,’ she said, ‘but the gate is guarded . . . you try everything – different fonts, different noms de plume. You take out all the adverbs, then put them back in again. You spend hours refining your synopsis. You know it must be possible, because you see the Published Ones walking around on the other side of the frontier, bathed in an aura of publishedness.’