What to tell people about the difference? Let's say it's a Gone With the Wind versus Buffy feel. You know how I feel about what you write but let me state it again. In everything you write, there are the precious moments (I don't mean cute but seriously valued) that grip me and just shake the daylights out of my heart. Whether the moment is the brother being shoved off the tower or a moment of kindness from a creature of ultimate evil or a simple sentence is one of your not so short, short stories.
Yes, there are differences but that is good. Try telling the potential buyer that they're not the same but who wants to read the same thing again and again? It's like having a diet of just your single favorite food. Would you want it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and every snack you ever ate?
If you know Thom Metzger, he writes YA under the pen name Leander Watts. From works on heroin and the electric chair to fantasy set in 1830's Upstate New York, its a afar jump. He says that there is definitely a different feel for himself as well but it is still his writing. You both are just exercising different parts of your creative well springs.
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Date: 2007-04-03 01:35 pm (UTC)Yes, there are differences but that is good. Try telling the potential buyer that they're not the same but who wants to read the same thing again and again? It's like having a diet of just your single favorite food. Would you want it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and every snack you ever ate?
If you know Thom Metzger, he writes YA under the pen name Leander Watts. From works on heroin and the electric chair to fantasy set in 1830's Upstate New York, its a afar jump. He says that there is definitely a different feel for himself as well but it is still his writing. You both are just exercising different parts of your creative well springs.