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All my life as a writer I have lived with a dilemma. I believe most writers do.
On the one hand, I want to reach an audience. For this, I need to write something that a publisher can make money on, at least enough money to justify the investment in printing, distributions, all that. That is the only kind of book that can ever reach a large audience, and that is what a writer writes for - to be read.
On the other hand, there are things I just plain like to write that I know will never justify publishing. Short stories, for example, or essays, or experimental fiction that is just too weird for a mainstream audience.
Most writers, when they want to write something far from the mainstream, look for small journals to publish it, or they publish short essays in magazines. Others just write it because they love writing it and never show it to anyone. It sits in their desks and when they die their grandchildren take a look at it and say, "Huh, weird, I didn't know he wro…
All my life as a writer I have lived with a dilemma. I believe most writers do.
On the one hand, I want to reach an audience. For this, I need to write something that a publisher can make money on, at least enough money to justify the investment in printing, distributions, all that. That is the only kind of book that can ever reach a large audience, and that is what a writer writes for - to be read.
On the other hand, there are things I just plain like to write that I know will never justify publishing. Short stories, for example, or essays, or experimental fiction that is just too weird for a mainstream audience.
Most writers, when they want to write something far from the mainstream, look for small journals to publish it, or they publish short essays in magazines. Others just write it because they love writing it and never show it to anyone. It sits in their desks and when they die their grandchildren take a look at it and say, "Huh, weird, I didn't know he wro…