You know, this is interesting because it shows that you (or any other writer for that matter) don't write for the art itself but for the money that you may squeeze out of it. As in, the story is only as good as the money I can make out of it. As in, let's put a sex scene here or a sudden revelation in the plot there because it will sell better like that.
I think Stephen King's experiment with his work "The Plant" for those who remember it, is a perfect example. He wrote one chapter at a time, selling it for whatever price his customers would pay then he went on working on the next chapter. After 5 or 6 chapters he reckoned the money was not good enough anymore as more and more people would download it for the lowest amount or even for free. So he stopped that particular novel. So what does that tell us ?
Mr King Never wrote it for the beauty of it or for the art or because he cared about his story. He only wrote it for the money he could get from it. It wasn't even that he was making 0 dollars, it was that what he was making was not good enough for his taste. And the passion of his work, the art of creating something weighed absolutely NOTHING in his decision.
What about those who paid from the first to the last available chapter ? They ended up paying for something that went nowhere.
So the bottom line is that writing or any other art is not that anymore. It's just plain cold business.
And yes, mortgages, food, gasoline and so on require money so Your post Mr Jordan can be considered a practical point. But to make it completely valid, you must agree that as I said, art is NOTHING more than business and that money is for all of us the ONLY incentive, the only reason to live to do something, to exist. Repairing parts in a factory, mopping floors at a restaurant, treating sick patients in a hospital, writing books or making movies is all just the same.
Makes me wonder if the motto "in god we trust" was not put on dollars by chance but because "god" is precisely what dollars are.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
If only my mortgage, food, gasoline, train tickets, car repairs and payments were free, too. As soon as you manage those feats, you can talk to me about giving my work away. Until then...
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