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Originally Posted by stonetools
I also want writers to focus on WRITING. Its popular round these parts to say writers should do marketing, should self publish, self edit, etc.
WRONG.
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I'm not really following the discussion here, but this point caught my eye. I disagree with the one of finality. There are many professions where people would like to concentrate on the core product, but they do have to engage in the peripherals to sell that core product. For instance, doctors would like to be left alone to engage with their patients, but most of them still have to deal with the running of their clinics, their finances, their employees, inventory, the paperwork, the marketing, the networking etc. Some might decide that it's not worth it, and instead work as hospitalists, where they manage to avoid all the peripherals except maybe the paperwork. There's room both both types, and there is absolutely no way of stating with finality that one of those methods should be preferred over the other, or that the hospitalist necessarily provides better medical care than the clinician.