You’ve got the passion, you’ve got the talent, you’ve got the dedication … and you’ve got the manuscript to show for it.
The one thing you don’t have? A book deal.
You finish the last strokes on your masterpiece, a painting that stands twenty feet tall and thirty feet wide. It’s beautiful, fully capturing the essence of your idea of this city and the pitfalls of love, hate, and betrayal. You unveil it for your benefactor, eagerly awaiting the slaps on the back and joyous exclamations.