I thought Robert McCrum's
Guardian article presented an excellent slice of hard reality.
As for the article advocating that the government subsidize literature to make up for declining advances, I missed that. It presented a problem that probably has no solution. There are far worse problems in the world, but the same newspaper can do a good job covering war in the Congo while also reporting on the declining incomes of award-winning literary novelists.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Authors are free to write as rapidly or as slowly as they wish. But if they want to sell more books, they might want to consider writing more. It's their choice.
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Right. And it's my choice to act accordingly after reading signed reviews and finding out the author hasn't reworked dull passages.
It's trite to say that one key to good writing is re-writing. It's also true.