I don't mean to say that one should try to write to the market or sit down and attempt a formulaic work. But speaking as someone who is struggling to figure out what to try next, I will say that if I had to do it all over again, I don't think I'd have written the books in the same way.
:/. I certainly don't mean for any of this to be depressing. In the case I was speaking of, I had pretty specific authors in mind, and having read your work, oddly enough, you weren't among them; I'd put you more in the Miller & Lee camp. I do find your work accessible. The person of whom I spoke (who may out themself only if they choose <w>) is writing what amounts to poetry in prose form, and at that, with English use that would be considered almost archaic (not by the author for the most part, just by anyone else <g>).
Reaching a broader audience while maintaining the heart of our own voice is what many of us are struggling to do. When I first started, I was trying to write a perfect (ha, hubristic youth) book. I didn't really think about readers at all.
I can say with absolute certainty that there are writing choices I'd avoid at all costs if I was going to do it all over again; I'd certainly have chosen a very different way to structure the first two books of the SUN SWORD, because the shift from one set of characters to a complete different set of characers for a very very long book did, I think, lose some people. Hind sight is, as they say, 20/20.
Otoh, at least half of the writers I know would do things differently if they could write things all over again.
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Date: 2004-08-02 08:25 pm (UTC)I don't mean to say that one should try to write to the market or sit down and attempt a formulaic work. But speaking as someone who is struggling to figure out what to try next, I will say that if I had to do it all over again, I don't think I'd have written the books in the same way.
:/. I certainly don't mean for any of this to be depressing. In the case I was speaking of, I had pretty specific authors in mind, and having read your work, oddly enough, you weren't among them; I'd put you more in the Miller & Lee camp. I do find your work accessible. The person of whom I spoke (who may out themself only if they choose <w>) is writing what amounts to poetry in prose form, and at that, with English use that would be considered almost archaic (not by the author for the most part, just by anyone else <g>).
Reaching a broader audience while maintaining the heart of our own voice is what many of us are struggling to do. When I first started, I was trying to write a perfect (ha, hubristic youth) book. I didn't really think about readers at all.
I can say with absolute certainty that there are writing choices I'd avoid at all costs if I was going to do it all over again; I'd certainly have chosen a very different way to structure the first two books of the SUN SWORD, because the shift from one set of characters to a complete different set of characers for a very very long book did, I think, lose some people. Hind sight is, as they say, 20/20.
Otoh, at least half of the writers I know would do things differently if they could write things all over again.