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  • The Tyranny of Marketability

    July 8, 2009

    • My agent wishes I would be monogamous, asks me to choose the one writing bed I will sleep in. ....I am too hard to market sprawled all over the writing landscape, says devorah major in an article about multi-genre writers. This is a harsh reality that most of us are faced with. It forces us to reexamine the true objective of our writing, is it to garner fame and fortune, or rather to exercise the ...
  • Musings of a schizoid writer...too many genres...April 19, 2008

    April 19, 2008

    • Saturday, April 19, 10:58AM - CURRENT PROJECT: The Breton & The GeneralThe sun is out...ok, it's Oregon, so it's not now. I cleaned my workspace this morning...a sure sign of procrastination. I can always tell if I'm struggling with the next scene when my desk is clean...Matt nudges me gently. "Honey, your desk looks awfully clean..." "Quiet, you!" I go online to one of ...
  • Monogamy and the Multi-Genre Writer

    April 1, 2008

    • My agent wishes I would be monogamous, asks me to choose the one writing bed I will sleep in. She doesn’t care what languages fill my dreams, just wants the pages that flow shaped in one direction able to be directed and sold in a clear, direct, effective way. Poetry or fiction, choose a mate. Science Fiction or Literary Fiction, Magic Realism or Speculative Fiction, make a choice. I am ...