Comments on: Wanting to be published: is it a trap?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:02:00 +0000

LOL! Pretty much, Glenda, going by the theory that where there's life, there's hope. *g*

Truthfully, I don't know. But I'm sure I'd be an unhappy and not very pleasant person. Thwarted, soured ambition can do nasty things to a person's soul.

Hey .. do you think there's a story in that??? *g*

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:26:00 +0000

That is probably the greatest mystery of the human condition, Hrugaar. We sometimes pay the most to the people who are the least useful. (Mind you, I am not sure that a fantasy novelist is particularly useful either…lol).

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:07:00 +0000

I suppose there’s a parallel with show business (as karen mentioned with the play in the garage). You get independent film makers and alternative playwrights who are pursuing their own visions; but by and large the industry is run as a business – and those involved target their audience, are there to earn a decent living out of it, and hopefully have a lot of fun along the way. And good for them. :o)

As a kind of aside, one of my recurring niggles is that had I been born thick as two planks but with a natural talent for football I might have earned a great deal of money doing what I enjoy, because that’s what Society wants to pay for; but being born with a way above average IQ and a talent for writing and a quirky perspective on life that hardly anyone is interested in hearing about … well, you can see where I’m heading. 😮

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:27:00 +0000

Being curious…do you know what you would have done if you hadn’t been published, Karen? Refused to take no for an answer on your death bed? *g*

Anyway, I am glad you are the way you are, because this particular tragic case has produced some very fine books…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:01:00 +0000

It's not what it's all about for some people, that's very true. But, and I have to be brutally honest, it is what it's all about for me. In the same way that performing a play by myself in the garage with no-one watching would be a waste of my time, so was the idea of writing and writing and never having an audience.

I stress, that's just me. And feeling that way may well make me a very tragic case. I admit it! *g* I'm tragic!

But I think it's important to know yourself, and what motivates you to do something. Or stop doing it, for that matter.