Writing to Your Passion or The Market?
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- regulozapata
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Writing to Your Passion or The Market?
As a Writer/Author What should a writer choose…Passion or Market? Specifically - Should a writer write about his or her passion, or first determine what topic is currently hot and write to that audience? How about both!
What do you Think! Give me your Thoughts & Ideas!
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Well, the best thing is both "Passion" & "Market".. People read books on many topics and its useful when author writes his/her passion, because it becomes more interesting.regulozapata wrote:Writing to Your Passion or The Market?
As a Writer/Author What should a writer choose…Passion or Market? Specifically - Should a writer write about his or her passion, or first determine what topic is currently hot and write to that audience? How about both!
What do you Think! Give me your Thoughts & Ideas!
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I'm about to sound like a complete ___, but here goes:
Passion alone won't ensure that you write a good book, or even a better book than the latest chick lit flick. It just won't. Before I make myself into a hypocrite, it won't ensure it because having "passion" doesn't mean having "critical awareness". You have to know what's good and what's not. And you have to care. Passionately.
As for the market, my favorite author to hold up about this is Cormac McCarthy. He's achieved mega-success, of Mega-ness, and he barely cares about the market. He's a brilliant writer. "Brilliant", used completely straight.
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I've been writing for 17 years and before I was published I tried to write for the market until I finally got fed up and said, f*ck it, I'm going to write a story that will blow their minds. So I wrote a gruesome horror story for a short story contest at Writers' Journal with beheadings and violence and a dark history of Halloween, and wouldn't you know it, they published it. Imagine my surprise.
If you're writing for publication, I believe you have to write to the interests of the market, but within that context, you must write with passion because the reader can feel otherwise, or in this case, the literary agent you're submitting it to.
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Also, I just got my recently completed second novel back from my reading group and have finished the final edits; I'm finishing writing the synopsis I will be sending in to literary agents (query letter is all done!). The book is titled "Fetish: A Tale of Love and Social Debauchery" and it is about a twenty-three year old high-fashion shoe salesman with a foot fetish." The book is a dark comedy, and it was the absolute most fun I've ever had writing a book. Not knowing anything about foot fetishes, I was shocked to find that it is searched on Google 450,000 times/month and continues to be the number one searched fetish today.
This is also a love story, but I got so tired of reading the formulaic love stories, or having characters fall in love in a few pages (vomit!!!) that I wrote something completely different and unique. This is not a book I would tell my grandma about, and in all likelihood I will use a pseudonym. Advance readings are extremely encouraging so I feel optimistic! We'll see!
Have you written anything?
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Wow, this is Superb! Great deal..Career Novelist wrote:Perrywinkle47, I just finished an eBook titled "6 Figure Novel Submissions: The Final Word on Query Letters, Synopses and Sample Pages"-based on years of research-and I am in the final stages of setting up the automated delivery system on my website.
Also, I just got my recently completed second novel back from my reading group and have finished the final edits; I'm finishing writing the synopsis I will be sending in to literary agents (query letter is all done!). The book is titled "Fetish: A Tale of Love and Social Debauchery" and it is about a twenty-three year old high-fashion shoe salesman with a foot fetish." The book is a dark comedy, and it was the absolute most fun I've ever had writing a book. Not knowing anything about foot fetishes, I was shocked to find that it is searched on Google 450,000 times/month and continues to be the number one searched fetish today.
This is also a love story, but I got so tired of reading the formulaic love stories, or having characters fall in love in a few pages (vomit!!!) that I wrote something completely different and unique. This is not a book I would tell my grandma about, and in all likelihood I will use a pseudonym. Advance readings are extremely encouraging so I feel optimistic! We'll see!
Have you written anything?
I have to check what a foot fetish is, too..
No, I have never for the sake of getting published. I would probably wait till I graduate because this whole thing is totally occupying and discouraging at the same time, if you get rejected.. Guess I don't have that much courage. lol.
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Courage comes from doing something so long the mystery is stripped clean and all you have left is the joy that got you started in the first place. If writing truly is your passion, you won't be able to stay away from it for long!