No, this isn't about the difficulty of getting your work published in the first place; it's something different.... As a regular contributor of articles to local magazines here in Spain, I constantly run up against what must the greatest curse that any writer can have to bear. This is the way in which one always sets the cat among the pigeons with one’s opinions. For example, suppose one were to have published an article suggesting that capital punishment is a suitable penalty for some forms of... Sign in to see full entry.