I'm reading various sites on publishing/getting published. People, there is a lot more to this process than you think, and I'm only mildly relieved to find that my assumptions have been, for the most part, correct. What are my assumptions? First, that lengths of works are judged by WORD LENGTH, NOT the number of pages. Differing page sizes can adjust page length, but the word length will always remain the same. I don't mention word length so much anymore mostly because my current word processor doesn't have a function which does this.

Second, that it's just as much about actually writing as it is pimping yourself and your work like a dirty, dirty whore. =P Being an author is not just about writing, as much as I wish it were--it's about being able to market and sell your work to publishers so you can get it to an audience and make enough money to keep writing.