BJC
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We Own The Night
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Post by BJC on May 10, 2005 13:04:18 GMT
Your a big-time writer, you wrote 7 thriller books. After the seventh is printed you retire. But you feel you cant stay retired and you need to write another book. This is it now, your big career comeback.......what do you write about? Stick with thrillers? If so what about? Change the style? If so, what to?
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Post by Elliot Kane on May 10, 2005 14:15:50 GMT
As long as I could affiord to do so, the answer is simply - anything I wanted  As a returning successful author with (Presumably) a fan base, I'd want to do something my old fans would not feel completely alienated by, but that might attract me new fans. no writer can ever have too many readers |
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Post by BJC on May 10, 2005 15:34:21 GMT
Stuck with two options. Stay and keep fans. Or differ and loose possible original fans but gain new ones...even ;D
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Post by Gray Lensman on May 10, 2005 18:32:26 GMT
I find it more creatively rewarding to do whatever more interests and/or challenges me at the time. Commercial reward is nice, but I think it's more important to do what's artistically rewarding. Sure, you can keep with a formula that's commercially successful. But that's also a creative rut waiting to happen. For me, it's more important to look to the next project and the next big idea. Ideally, a middle ground between the two would be nice. But if I was forced to choose, I'd want to do something different by that stage. If the experiment doesn't work out, I could then try something else. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. |
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