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Old 08-10-2009, 09:03 AM   #26
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In movies it is well accepted to have actors and actresses who are famous only for their physique to not write their own lines, but to have the text be written by a scriptwriter. As in an assembly line in this way everyone contributes their own strength to the final product: good looking performers making the movie more attractive to view and a soulless ghost to provide an entertaining story.

Why should this not work in book writing?

Well fine, if you want the whole industry to be just that. Well, hell why not have our novels sponsored by Coca-Cola while we're at it and have every other page an advert? I mean, it's just literature after all, it's not important. It's just entertainment. It's not like reading is important or anything.

Coming soon, The Grapes of Wraith 2 - The Wrathening (by a faceless conglomeration of US sitcom writers hiding behind the face of a celebrity)

next up: 1985 - The Year After (by David Hasselhof)

If you're seriously suggesting fiction and literature should be run like the soulless TV & movie industry then I have to wonder if you have actually read a book before, if that is the esteem with which you hold literature.
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