I think part of the problem sometimes with experienced authors on the web is that you -- or any other experienced, established, and skillful author with sales and reputation to back it up -- are easily accessed by newer authors who can/may take at face value what, to you, is a simple statement: that you owe us readers what's between the covers, no more, no less.
Which is true, but such may inadvertantly encourage those newer authors I read/hear who say, "this is the story I wrote, it's the best story in me, and that's the story you get," and are willfully blind to the fact that you can't just toss out the story and not recognize that within the story there are obligations. Follow your muse, certainly, but for pete's sake, don't throw away the road map.
Hrm, maybe I should put that on an icon. *fiddles*
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Date: 5 Jan 2007 02:22 am (UTC)I think part of the problem sometimes with experienced authors on the web is that you -- or any other experienced, established, and skillful author with sales and reputation to back it up -- are easily accessed by newer authors who can/may take at face value what, to you, is a simple statement: that you owe us readers what's between the covers, no more, no less.
Which is true, but such may inadvertantly encourage those newer authors I read/hear who say, "this is the story I wrote, it's the best story in me, and that's the story you get," and are willfully blind to the fact that you can't just toss out the story and not recognize that within the story there are obligations. Follow your muse, certainly, but for pete's sake, don't throw away the road map.
Hrm, maybe I should put that on an icon. *fiddles*