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Quote: Originally Posted by willietheshakes Could you please point out the posts where anybody suggested that SP shouldn't exist? Because this reads a LOT like a straw man argument... Yes. I would like to know this too.

Quote: Originally Posted by willietheshakes A point which NO ONE has objected to. Hence my earlier references to straw men. My misunderstanding. I apologize. I thought someone had objected to access to publishing. Again. Apologies and biscuits.

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Quote: Originally Posted by The Lonely One For clarification purposes, though, how will reading/writing literary fiction or poetry not help genre writers? Why I ask is that I have learned much from genre fiction and it has shaped my style, even when I lean towards a literary kind of writing. It gives a comprehensive outlook for me, and makes me versatile. I also think many of the rules of writing are shared, though altered or shaded by genre....

After two years of subbing to publishers, the first agent I tried (he was later involved with Edit Ink, but another writer recommended him back then) told me something useful. "You're a good writer but unpublishable." Since this was before email I couldn't ask for a clarification of such a ridiculous and contradictory summation. I was disappointed and ANGRY. I was so angry I decided to FEED him his words, ramming...

Quote: Originally Posted by The Lonely One Is this not a fear, a consciousness of how others are graded? One's system being threatened? First off, though, readers aren't going to give books a good grade out of sympathy. Nor are reviewers or prestigious literary lists/awards. . You missed my comparison. I wasn't saying the readers were like those being graded. I was saying that those supporting self-publishing are the ones being...

Quote: Originally Posted by freeman801 So the question that runs around in my head is 'why go to school for English when your already writing?' or 'why go to school for anything when your doing the thing you want to do for the rest of your life?'. I think your answers may be in your question, Grasshopper.

Anywhere in North America is fine. And for that matter, we have at least one Canadian author on AW who is repped by someone in the UK. It's mostly done by email nowadays anyway. The occasional agent will refuse to take on foreign clients, but they aren't a majority. __________________ Progress on current WIP: I'm on MySpace , Twitter , and Facebook . "The time has come," the Walrus said , "to speak of...

There are some very bad creative writing programs out there, so care of selection is critical, but there are also many wonderful creative writing programs. A bunch of well-known writers found more than enough time to write in college, no matter what type of degree they were after. Two writers who wrote a LOT in college with very different types of degrees were Michael Crichton and Stephen King. Crichton actually managed to get rather famous...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cyia My guess is that Twilight blew her illusion of market supremacy. If she had really deluded herself into thinking that her books were the end all - be all of vampire fiction, seeing Edward on a Doritos bag must have been a world changer. Who has more money anyway-LKH or Meyer? (I'm not throwing J.K. Rowling into the equation because I suspect she has more money than the Vatican.) Also... I would just kill...