There’s so much more to becoming a great writer than just getting published, but for most people, that is their end goal. There is a truth about what it’s like as a published author that I’ve learned over the last few years.L.E. Modesitt Jr said it more eloquently then I ever could:

“No author, not even in a book the length of War and Peace , can describe and cover all the aspects of a society and the people with which he or she populates that culture. What authors do is provide bits and pieces...