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Subject: Re: Reading, A Lost Art

Author: JIM

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:52:09 06/10/01 Sun In reply to: ~Steve-o 's message, "Reading, A Lost Art" on 21:08:38 06/09/01 Sat >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. Well, sort of. Writers today who are as respected and talented as Dickens was in his day still contribute stories and serials to magazines once in a while, but with so many magazines on the market, very few can pay the sort of prices that the Atwoods and Rushdies go for. And for sure, they don't draw the kind of impace and audience they once did. Arthur Conan Doyle's stories sustained the Strand magazine for years. When Holmes took a header off Reichenbach Falls, Londoners wore black arm bands. There isn't a character in print today that could provoke that kind of reaction, and not many TV characters, either. Even Kirk's death in Generations only registered a collective shrug. >I think even someone like Hemingway would have >problems selling to the mass market. Nobody would give >a crap about his travels. He'd be doing what Steve Irwin is doing now. Only with an outboard motor sponsor. >Arthur C. Clarke would never make it trying to live on >pieces sold to pulp magazines. There are still people doing that, but there aren't many pulp magazines anymore. [snippage] >Of course, just like there's ten "Blue Canary"s or >"Road Waffles" for every "Real Life," >mumble< I like Blue Canary... >/mumble< >for ever Kira Lerner who's writing on the web there's ten writers >who would be better off flipping paramagnetic spins than >pursuing a career in writing. Sorry, I just had to make that correction. >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. Isn't that pretty accurate, though? Most web writings are pretty bad. Even TGC, TFoHG and the RKM Empire, although better than, say, your average "Star Wars" paperback, aren't up to the best professional quality yet. Except for "Do Not Remove". I still maintain that's brilliant. >Right now, it's just a matter of writing because you >like doing it. Maybe some day it'll be different for >content producers. We can hope. Me, I just want to one day fulfill the real Deuterium Boy's dream where, he's talking with someone he's just met somewhere in the world, when this person says to him, "Say, your name is familiar. Have you ever read this web serial..." JIM, to which Dave would of course reply, "Never heard of it." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Re: Reading, A Lost Art	~Steve-o	17:06:46 06/10/01 Sun