Think You Have A Book In You, Think Again has been widely quoted on the web and generated heated rants from many folks. Epstein wrote "why should so many people think they can write a book, especially at a time when so many people who actually do write books turn out not really to have a book in them -- or at least not one that many other people can be made to care about? Something on the order of 80,000 books get published in America every year, most of them not needed, not wanted, not in any way remotely necessary."

Needless to say most people pointed out that we could have all done without his comments.

Well now Alma Hromic seems to be taking herself too seriously when she launches into an attack on the concept behind NaNoWriMo. What is it with these people?

Thank goodness for Rainer Maria Rilke who wrote A Letter to A Young Poet