Developing Novelists
Jun. 30th, 2014 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithUsed to be, publishers understood that writing is a skill which takes time to develop. Now they expect instant bestsellers. You know who does that? One-hit wonders. Also the publishers don't want to keep expert editors around long enough to help new authors hone their skills. And then the publishers cry and whine because they don't have a good set of talented writers.
Ah, fuck 'em. I'll be over here coaching my favorite crowdfunding writers. I just watchedmagistrate sit down and create more new, original, utterly awesome settings in one prompt session than I could find on a whole bookshelf in a store these days. I've watched kajones_writing build up another huge bundle of settings, several of which have become favorites of mine such as Donor House, Pagans, Afterlife, and World Walkers: Quiar. dialecticdreamer is a recent addition and already on my fave list.
Ah, fuck 'em. I'll be over here coaching my favorite crowdfunding writers. I just watched
magistrate sit down and create more new, original, utterly awesome settings in one prompt session than I could find on a whole bookshelf in a store these days. I've watched kajones_writing build up another huge bundle of settings, several of which have become favorites of mine such as Donor House, Pagans, Afterlife, and World Walkers: Quiar. dialecticdreamer is a recent addition and already on my fave list.
Re: Instant Hits
Date: 2014-07-01 05:13 pm (UTC)It also highlights the dangers of these megacorps -- because if one of them goes down, you don't lose just their core functionality, you also lose the hundreds of other companies they have absorbed. Borders went down, and instead of just losing the freestanding book barns in large towns, we also lost almost every mall bookstore in the nation -- which is the only bookstore that many smaller towns HAD.