Write the darn thing

A few days ago I saw a book described on-line.  Let’s just say that the plot was one of the least reasonable ones that I have seen in a long time.  I have to admit that my first thought was who comes up with an idea like this followed by who publishes something like this?

It is the kind of thing to evoke horror: They’ll publish that but not my book!?!?  or  Heck if they’ll publish that they’ll publish anything – maybe I should write a book.

Then I realized that this book was targeted to a very specific subset of readers.  This wasn’t meant to appeal to a broad range of readers, it was meant to draw in everyone in that select group.  I suppose that’s a way to go, obviously the publisher thought so.

Not that any of that matters.  If you can target a book and get a publisher, great; if you just have an idea, great.  But none of that is the point. 

What’s important is very simple: If you want to write, write.