I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation.
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A lot of people have said similar sentiments. In the end, make sure you love what you wrote. everybody else can help you love it a little more, but you need to love it, so do.
Dan Alatorre 
i do think the artist has to believe in their work, though not the reason why all art is created.
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No doubt. Good point!
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I think it is true. If you are writing for everyone else to love it – most likely they won’t and neither will you. It has to mean something to you to make a difference to others.
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I agree.
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I interpret this to mean Capote was against soulless production of mindless drivel in the name of money or notoriety.
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I’m sure
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There are successful professionals who turn it out for money and for their public, and there are those who embrace controversy because it gets them noticed….annnnddd of course money.
However for most real driving force is the love and attendant determination to produce and craft their own work.
I spent most of the year of this current project of mine; taking it very seriously, honing, working with the characters it’s been the best writing year of my life. It may not sell even double figures….I don’t care.
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That’s when you know somebody has put their heart and soul into it. I hope it does well!
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Interesting quote! If I may, I think that yes, the first obligation of the artist is to be true to themselves and their work, but I’d also throw out there that when writing, (especially series writing,) the writer is kind of like a tour guide, leading others into his or her world and showing them around, introducing them to new people and things- and if the tour guide leaves me stranded in a dark alley and runs away laughing, I’m not going to be pleased. If we want people to go on ‘journeys’ with us, it’s worthwhile thinking about how the events in our writing will affect our readers. (Though, in the end, the writer has to make the final call of what’s right for the story, even if isn’t going to be the popular one…)
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Hey, George RR Martin get you to fall in love with a character just so he can kill them and leave you upset. So there’s something to be said for that kind of stuff both ways. But as far as leaving people hanging? No. That’s something the tour guide can never do.
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Lol granted! (Mind you, I’m still a sucker for a good HEA 😉 )
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I think “works means” must be a typo. Googling…
Yep. Typo. Whew. I was about to pass some harsh judgement on Capote.
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Typo nazi. Leave Truman alone. Or whoever typed the meme.
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Hey I sat here second guessing my own brain for like five minutes.
“That can’t be right…right??”
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Ha. “Never trust an internet meme.” – Abraham Lincoln.
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I agree absolutely with T.C. ! Love and embrace what you’ve written only when you know you’ve been true to your own capability and heart and soul to get it shaped into what your own brain conceived. Then you can smile and move on. No author in the world in the history of writing ever had praise for his every word from his every fan come to his ear. But if he smiled at his own production, he was already moving to the next.
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