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Drove milady to the station this morning, rather late, alas: I can't think what delayed us. We've already 'gone public' so it's just finding out about how well we fit. Thus far so good. Now I have to start writing again. Also I have to be cynical and write the next novel with an eye on the bottom line, rather than trying to compose with my particular criticisms and pseudo-rebuttals of lit-crit theory.
I should remember the marketplace: no-one's ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public.
Explosions and sex it is then.

Date: 2008-04-17 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbertsch.livejournal.com
But perhaps you'd just be tapping into the general public's desire to provide pseudo-rebuttals of lit-crit theory. We cultural critics like explosions too!

Date: 2008-04-17 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com
Comedies of acute embarrassment....sink under the weight of too much theory.

Date: 2008-04-17 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbertsch.livejournal.com
Unless the comedy is the theory. I remember having lots of fun making silly over the application of abstruse paradigms to mundane details.

Date: 2008-04-17 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com
Ah, from where I stand that's called life.

Date: 2008-04-17 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vlion.livejournal.com
Heh...yeah, some of us read fiction for entertainment & non-fiction for pondering. ^_~

Date: 2008-04-17 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com
I thought I'd written a comic novel. No-one else found it funny. Damn.

Date: 2008-04-18 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vlion.livejournal.com
Perhaps you did not market it to the right people? :o
Would you care to send me a chapter? I am rather curious now.

Date: 2008-04-17 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tripinthehead33.livejournal.com
Unfortunately, often times it is necessary to follow suit with the way things are done which get under your skin in order to make money doing what you want. I have my worries with that with my future endeavors. I like to think my personal take on it will allow me to succeed. However, I could be terribly, horribly wrong. Good luck with your lady and your novel. If you don't mind me asking, what do you tend to write about?

Date: 2008-04-17 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com
What I know. "Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto" as I may have quoted before.

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