Sacred Cow Murdering

Dean Wesley Smith has a series of articles entitled Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing. He takes on the task of disabusing the writing public of what he considers to be pernicious myths such as "you can't make any money writing fiction" and "stories get better when you rewrite them". Like any advice, I'd say don't buy it wholesale, but examine it and see what applies to you (for example, you can't make a living writing fiction doesn't apply to you until you have a full compliment of novels and short stories, but that's exactly the point of the article: that just because you can't make money writing fiction at first doesn't mean you can NEVER make money writing fiction). There's some really good stuff in there.