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But how many of them started out writing because they saw it as a way of making money? And how do their "written for money" books compare to their earlier ones?
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LP > computer No need for the CD or the iTunes versions. There are ways around things legally. In the US, the DMCA is not clear about DRM, stripping DRM, and the rights of the buyer. So until stripping DRM from eBooks actually goes to court, it's unknown if it is legal or not. I do hope that if it ever did go to court, that the judge would side with the user as long as it was for personal use. |
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The question these examples illustrate is why do people write? We know, at least using Shakespeare as an example, that he copied most of his ideas from earlier works and then these works were performed. His (or her) status as a writer was secondary to performance, and performance not as art but as paid entertainment. But we've evolved from that state, and we're in an ongoing revolution of intent. I know why I write, and it isn't money because I've never made a cent from what I've written. I write because I wake up with pictures in my head, memories cramming my nostrils and my skin crawling with ideas. I wake up remembering Spain and the shadow of a bull I saw on a hill, and the picture of a bullfight I saw hanging outside a shop during siesta time. I write because I saw Picasso painting on an old black and white film, and because Dali's face haunted at least one of my dreams as a child. This all happened just after dawn this morning when I put down a story called "On the Hill, A Bull" and it was down and captured by first light. Nobody paid me to write about Spain and failed revolutions and artists waiting for the death of a dictator so that they were free to paint again. I wrote, I write because I have to, there's not really any option and I only falter in my writing when I have to think about such abstracts as money and audience and copyrights. So yes, some write for money, and there' s nothing ignoble about that pursuit. But you must acknowledge that some of us write because we have something to say, even if that something is only to remember the heat of Spain one summer a long time ago and the shape of a shadow of a bull on a hill in a country waiting for death. |
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I truly believe that artists will always create, writers will always write, painters will always paint, whether they are paid or not. And I truly believe that they are more true to their selves when they are not getting paid, because then it's not a job, it's a calling. There is one thing to be said about money though. It can afford an artist the luxury to concentrate on his art, instead of worrying about everyday life. It also probably makes him compromise this art, even just a little, to ensure getting paid again. |
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I think most people would say that Dickens became a significantly better writer over the course of his life. His later novels are a lot better plotted and written than his early books. But make no mistake about it, Dickens was writing the mass entertainment of his day. His novels, serialised in weekly magazines, were very much written for the commercial market. Like Shakespeare, he was writing as a commercial proposition, not as "art". |
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EDIT: The Spain stories I want to put out as a collection in the future. I have so many I want to tell. Like the one about the lonely fisherman me, my dad and uncle sat with one night until three in the morning sharing sangria, cigarettes and stories. Or the insect I met walking back one night from the town, which was the biggest thing I'd ever seen and was almost human in its reaction to me. Or the storm I witness one siesta when the whole town was deserted. Or the ones about my grandfather...there are hundreds of them. Last edited by Moejoe; 06-06-2010 at 06:15 PM. |
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