It’s NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days and then start submitting it to publishers without any editing or peer-critiquing, and then getting butthurt on the internet when their stories don’t sell.
Read my first NaNoWriMo column, SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story, over at Nerdery Public.