Re: Big Picture vs Expanding Viewpoint

"Alma Hromic Deckert" <anghara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:58:11 +0000 (UTC), "Nicola Browne"
> <nicky.matthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >> I write what asks to be written. I then HOPE to be able to sell it.
> These days, thankfully, that is the agent's bailiwick - and if SHE
> likes what I've done then it's her job to make sure someone hands over
> (preferably lots of) money for it.
>
> I have never ever ever written something "because it would sell",
> because I know for a certainty that something written soullessly like
> that, at least for me, might be commercially hot but would be a
> stillborn baby for me. I write for money, sure, but I sell the stuff
> that I write, I don't write stuff to sell. Heck, I can't even write a
> synopsis of the stuff I *am* writing, let alone write a whole
> book-length MS to someone else's formula...
I have not written something because it wouldn't sell - though I have
twice written an unsaleable story anyway. I think I set up the question
badly becuase I don't think a story with a commercial aim in mind has to
be
'stillborn baby' ( rather a horrible image actually)I think writing
a story that an editor and then a reader might want to buy is a
perfectly reasonable aim. I'm not trying to write 'literature'
( though I admire it) just stories with a relatively short shelf life.
Perhaps the issue is better expressed as a choice between pleasing
myself or a possible reader. I have tended to do what interests me
most but frankly I think that might be rather self indulgent.
I am intrigued by the 'what asks to be written answer' because anything
I can come up with asks to be written, just some of it is better
refused : )
How do you choose between competing ideas?

Nicky
(Latest came out a couple of weeks ago allegedly. Waiting on edits.
Waiting on proposal. Busy inspecting navel - it's an inny nor an outy.)




> A. (currently editing one book(1), writing another(2), and planning a
> third and completely unrelated one before tackling the fourth, which
> is the third book in the trilogy begun with (1) and (2) above...)




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