--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Williams
<johnwilliams@...> wrote:
>
...the only reason I can see to go into territory
that
> doesn't speak to your personal
obsessions/interests/world view is if
> you're writing purely in the hope of pleasing a
market, in which case
> you're a hack (there are of course plenty of very
good hacks who
cater
> for a market very skilfully - they're just not in
the business of
> writing literature).
Of course a writer may study a market carefully, even
rewriting some of the published stories, all in the hope of
selling one of his own to the editor. That was the way
Raymond Chandler did it. Was he "purely" hoping to please a
market? Maybe not but I don't think that matters very much.
If you are a Chandler a bit of literature might result even
if the motivation is the grocery bill.
Richard Moore (riding an admittedly not very tall pony)
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