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Originally Posted by Blossom
No but I think changing how you write to make more money is they are just depriving the world of their true writing talent and I find that sad especially when it's a favorite author and you know they can write better than what their latest book shows. It's like they are no longer even trying anymore.  |
But this would appear to presume that Harry's examples of Dickens and Shakespeare didn't do exactly that - change how they wrote to make more money.
There are pressures on what professional writers produce. There used to be a book-a-year thing, now the expectation can be even higher. And there are many examples of authors writing under a pseudonym so they could publish in a different genre because of the pressure to always publish something like what they've written before. I imagine that some pressures have changed as society has changed, but those two (produce to a deadline, and produce what the paying audience wants) have probably been around forever.