How Many Fiction Writers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

It's simple: Twenty-nine

· One to secretly dream about one day quitting their day job to become a full-time lightbulb-changing writer

· One to tell everyone they're a lightbulb-changing writer, but never actually do anything about it

· One to come up with the idea to change the lightbulb in a new and compelling way (and then suggest a "collaboration" with someone who actually changes lightbulbs)

· One to start changing the lightbulb but not finish the job

· One to get THIS close to finishing, then decide it's all crap and throw it in the trash and start over

· One to finish it but then redo it over and over and over and over again

· One to finish it but then never turn the light on (put it in a drawer and not tell anyone)

· One to hire an agent to tell him how to change a lightbulb

· Ten to form a critique group to tell him how they each would've changed the lightbulb differently

· Ten more to give up on ever changing a lightbulb

· And one to actually do it, start to finish, once; turn it on, sell it, then do it again.


(Yes, I made this up myself.)


On second thought, I may have underestimated the number of giver-uppers. Perhaps that should be a thousand for every "one" who actually does it.


Now, "Let your light so shine..."