I guess most of what I write could be qualified as SF, but most of what I read is books that I didn't read for the English major (Hemingway, Ibsen, etc...) and nonfiction (Machiavelli, biology, etc...).
In all likelihood, reading "the competition" is necessary if you're interested in selling a work, since knowing what your readers are buying is an insight into whether a publisher might be interested in what you have to say. Grated minds think alike*, so you also have to be aware if what you planned on writing "has been done before".
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:16 pm (UTC)In all likelihood, reading "the competition" is necessary if you're interested in selling a work, since knowing what your readers are buying is an insight into whether a publisher might be interested in what you have to say. Grated minds think alike*, so you also have to be aware if what you planned on writing "has been done before".
*On the frappe setting they don't think at all.