Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
1) I would like to teach higher-level education, and being published by a major house is like an automatic job in that field.

2) I don't consider marketing myself, working connections, etc to be my best qualities. If I have a concept that raises a lot of eyebrows and a writing style that makes people think that I have potential, then I would like to polish that into something that would make a publishing house pick me up and do that stuff for me.

3) I have high aspirations for this project and a) don't want to give up on having it be published by a major house until those aspirations are appropriately crushed and b) wouldn't want to self-publish a "good enough" draft of the novel. If I'd gone through with my first draft of this novel, I would have a million regrets right now. Until I've hit a wall in terms of ideas for improvement and/or avenues for potentially getting published and/or young enthusiasm, I'll keep forging ahead.

4) The barriers are much tougher for literary fiction than they are for genre fiction.
Good explanation, thanks. You're an artist, not a hoor.