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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Aren't we just trying to apply the modes of what was to what none of us can possibly know? Digital publishing isn't traditional publishing. You can do whatever you like. Multiple pseudonyms, any genre, no genre, free, priced, given away with a bag of oranges. This is the perfect opportunity for all writers to ignore what they've been told in the past, and do whatever they feel like, and with very little risk either. If we persist in holding onto the ideas of the past, the future is already lost.
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I think that is the point the discussion. We're comparing notes on "So why do we have this rule?"
It's the old story about the family recipe. A mother is teaching her daughter to bake a ham according to the old family recipe. Just before they glaze it, Mom cuts off each end of the ham.
"Why do we do that?" asked the daughter.
"I don't know," said Mom. "That's just the say Grandma always did it."
So they call up Grandma, and she thinks maybe it has something to do with the glaze, but she's not sure. She just did it the way Great-Grandma did it.
They go to visit Great-Grandma at the retirement center and she just laughs. "We only had a little tiny pan to bake it in," she says. "I cut off the ends so it would fit!"
The problem is that in real life, each generation would come up with a different excuse, and you might not easily get back to the real reason.
Camille