Once again, you are doing an awesome service writing about this stuff and giving your perspective away for free.
*It is interesting how your basic discussion translates well into other mediums. I help run a local theater company. People keep wanting to do original works or obscure, post-modern plays... and they get fussy when companies are reluctant to produce their work. We put on Dangerous Liaisions instead... risky, company-mission-fulfilling, and something no one was willing to do... but obviously EMINENTLY marketable... the perfect storm. And we made fistfulls of cash (for a non-profit community theater company, $5k is fistfuls!) Writers should look for similar opportunities and remember that writing a great book and having people read it are two very seperate battles.
*I always thought "slash" referred to taking existing characters from other properties and having those characters have sex. (i.e. "Kirk/Spock Slash, Buffy/Willow Slash, Dr. Crusher/Counselor Troi") While this was the kind of thing I would have LOVED to find on the bookshelf when I was fifteen... I wouldn't pay $6.50 for the paperback today.
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Date: 2006-06-22 05:20 pm (UTC)*It is interesting how your basic discussion translates well into other mediums. I help run a local theater company. People keep wanting to do original works or obscure, post-modern plays... and they get fussy when companies are reluctant to produce their work. We put on Dangerous Liaisions instead... risky, company-mission-fulfilling, and something no one was willing to do... but obviously EMINENTLY marketable... the perfect storm. And we made fistfulls of cash (for a non-profit community theater company, $5k is fistfuls!) Writers should look for similar opportunities and remember that writing a great book and having people read it are two very seperate battles.
*I always thought "slash" referred to taking existing characters from other properties and having those characters have sex. (i.e. "Kirk/Spock Slash, Buffy/Willow Slash, Dr. Crusher/Counselor Troi") While this was the kind of thing I would have LOVED to find on the bookshelf when I was fifteen... I wouldn't pay $6.50 for the paperback today.