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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'm not particularly sad about my decision. I'll have written everything I think I'm capable of by the end of this year, and that's going to be quite a lot (inclusive of everything I have still waiting to be edited). The writing is on the wall, pardon the pun, for the whole industry. It's going to be more and more of the same, sequels, serial killers and vampires with a heart, jingoistic quasi-military pablum and rehashed romance. I'm even finding myself reading less and less lately because there's less and less that interests me being published either in the mainstream or outside. Every so often you find something beautiful, something that doesn't repeat everything you've ever heard before, and then you realise its a fluke, not the norm.
I'm rambling, in any case I'll have accomplished everything I set out to do come New Year's. I can relax knowing that my ambition of touching a few people with what I wrote, came true. That's enough  |
i really do understand what you mean, but 1. that's the beauty of feedbooks : you don't have to write sequals, serial killers and vampires with a heart (etc.) to be read there. 2. you can't know you'll have nothing left to say ; from what i know of you, that will never be true. just don't stop because you decided you should, when a new story comes into your head.
you have touched more than a few people with what you wrote, and i think we all will be grateful to you for that forever. but just because the industry is going down a road you don't want to follow (and i support you in that) doesn't mean you should let that dictate whether you write or not.
like verencat said, i don't want to pressure you (well... actually, i kind of do... but i'm trying to keep it in check
) but at the least don't close the door completely. just... write if you have something to say, and don't force yourself if for a time you don't, but don't make it into a question of principle. please ?