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Sunday, August 30, 2015

STAY LIT


Writing is precarious

Amazon seems to want to prune its ranks of unknown Indies. 

 Struggling Indie writers find their novels lost in an ever-growing sea of self-published prose.

Twitter, Facebook, and Blog Book Tours offer fewer and fewer dividends to authors.

It’s a time when it would make a lot of sense to quit 

— and a time when simply not quitting is becoming its own art form.

Academics who left the scholarly world that no longer seemed relevant have invented their own genre --  

Quit Lit.

 Many creative writers today seem to be writing what you might call “STAY LIT — 

accounts of how the publishing world has bruised and sometimes bloodied their egos, 

and why they’re still writing anyway.

Read the early letters of Mark Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Raymond Chandler --

And you will read the same thing:

Those who quit never win.  
Those who stay the course 
always win their self-respect ... 
if not their dreams. 

Writing lives and writing careers are very hard-won even when they’re successful.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.  Stay the course.

8 comments:

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    1. Thanks, Lara. It means a lot when you visit and comment. My weekend job affords me so little free time to do as I would on the Net. :-( Forgive me for not visiting more often.

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  2. I'm not only not quitting, within the next month I'll finally be promoting my work and (soon-to-be-resurrected) blog more. But it's frustrating, isn't it, how much time we have to spend promoting our writing instead of writing the books themselves?

    And I'm so glad you'll always write, Roland!

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    1. I'll always write... whether anyone reads it is another thing! LOL.

      I'll be visiting your blog when it is up. :-)

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  3. I've only made 10 or so dollars on my short story compilation so I'm certainly not writing for the money. I must write or go insane. I'd love to make a living from it, but to me its like being an actor. You must be at the right place at the right time and hope your talent stands above the rest when you're put on the spot. :)

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    1. Exactly, we must continually write and put it out onto whatever platform we can and hope that someone of importance notices our prose!! :-)

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  4. That's right - you'll definitely lose if you quit.

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    1. Those who quit will always wonder what would have happened if they had not. :-(

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