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Author: ~Steve-o |
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Date Posted: 21:08:38 06/09/01 Sat Personally, I think the web has done more to promote literacy among the lazy than TV Guide. However, I agree with your statement that serial writers as we knew them wouldn't make it today. Dickens might sell a piece or two to some women's magazines, but that's about it. I think even someone like Hemingway would have problems selling to the mass market. Nobody would give a crap about his travels. Arthur C. Clarke would never make it trying to live on pieces sold to pulp magazines. The way it stands now, the only way to make it as a writer is in journalism or novels, both of which are incredibly difficult fields to break into, but are the young writer's only hope of becoming a professional. The answer is, of course, the internet, where everything is a level playing field. A band like Blood Hag has as much chance of getting someone to their web page as Motley Crue does. An artist like Bill Holbrook, with two successful strips in the UAS, is still struggling on the internet against competition like Pete Abrams. Of course, the real problem, one that myself and people like Phil Flora of Bitbooks are struggling with, is how to make it pay. How do you turn a few gems of writing into a paycheck? Right now, it can't be done. The best we can hope for is to create a following like Abrams has done for his strip and hope to create something akin to Keenspot for writers some time in the future, or work with production houses to get our content out. Of course, just like there's ten "Blue Canary"s or "Road Waffles" for every "Real Life," for ever Kira Lerner who's writing on the web there's ten writers who would be better off flipping burgers than pursuing a career in writing. And, just like online comics, the glut of bad writers has taken the visibility away from good writers. Content providers are afraid of working with content producers because the image of the online writer is an amateur geek who writes bad soap operas or X-Files slash. Right now, it's just a matter of writing because you like doing it. Maybe some day it'll be different for content producers. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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