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From: Nancegar_at_aol.com <Nancegar>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:56:54 EDT
Hey, wait a sec, Emmaattic -- can you really prove that << ...like it or not, it is a fact that authors are scrambling to write more "edgy" not to "sell copies," but "sell" a manuscript>>? I'm not sure that's a fair statement! Some of us are glad that the present climate is such that we are now able to address topics that have been impossible or hard to sell earlier --- not because we're after big bucks (which very few of us earn anyway, no matter what we write) -- but because we feel these issues are important to address and that writing about them responsibly is actually helpful to some young adults.
Nancy Garden
____________________________________________ Please visit my website at www.nancygarden.com Budding Writers: The Exercises, #2 is up!
Received on Thu 23 Jun 2005 08:56:54 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:56:54 EDT
Hey, wait a sec, Emmaattic -- can you really prove that << ...like it or not, it is a fact that authors are scrambling to write more "edgy" not to "sell copies," but "sell" a manuscript>>? I'm not sure that's a fair statement! Some of us are glad that the present climate is such that we are now able to address topics that have been impossible or hard to sell earlier --- not because we're after big bucks (which very few of us earn anyway, no matter what we write) -- but because we feel these issues are important to address and that writing about them responsibly is actually helpful to some young adults.
Nancy Garden
____________________________________________ Please visit my website at www.nancygarden.com Budding Writers: The Exercises, #2 is up!
Received on Thu 23 Jun 2005 08:56:54 PM CDT
