sometimes when people don't get it it's your fault as a writer; but sometimes it's that what you're doing is sideways of what the reader is doing/looking for.
I think that's a big part of my own manuscript's problem right there: I wrote the book I wasn't finding out there on the shelves. (Which is to say in my case, genre-ish fantasy that "takes itself seriously" in the respect of believing itself to be just as legitimate a form as "mainstream" writing, but not going all the way into overblown Literary-ness.) So I'd think that other quality issues being equal, there'd be a niche for it, in that I couldn't be the only one out here who wasn't finding what they wanted out in the marketplace, but there's always that sneaking suspicion that I'm just a Weird Person, y'know? (It'll be interesting to see how Potter and the LotR films will end up reshaping people's perceptions of the genre down the line, too, not that I can wait that long.)
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Date: 2004-08-16 01:20 am (UTC)I think that's a big part of my own manuscript's problem right there: I wrote the book I wasn't finding out there on the shelves. (Which is to say in my case, genre-ish fantasy that "takes itself seriously" in the respect of believing itself to be just as legitimate a form as "mainstream" writing, but not going all the way into overblown Literary-ness.) So I'd think that other quality issues being equal, there'd be a niche for it, in that I couldn't be the only one out here who wasn't finding what they wanted out in the marketplace, but there's always that sneaking suspicion that I'm just a Weird Person, y'know? (It'll be interesting to see how Potter and the LotR films will end up reshaping people's perceptions of the genre down the line, too, not that I can wait that long.)