Get Published by Getting Out

If you want to get published, listen to the advice of Garrison Keillor. In the YouTube clip below, Garrison Keillor tells us to get out of the house. Too often we spend all of our spare time writing at the keyboard, or researching, or jotting down thoughts in a notebook. Writers become too introverted; they lose touch with the real world, and the quality their writing suffers. When the quality of your writing suffers in this way, your writing loses touch, and you won't get published.

In the clip below, Keillor states, "Writing is about the world that we live in." This is too easy to forget. Garrison Keillor also says, "You always want to be in touch with how things look, and what people say, and what they call their dogs. You always want to be there." Isn't that what writing is all about anyway?

In summary: watch this clip for some inspiration, then get your shoes on, get out of the house, and get published.