7th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, books, writing, reaching your audience, publishing, Chuck Wendig, value the art |
"I think books should be cheaper. I want books to be accessible. If books are precious (and as a result, expensive), then publishers win, readers lose, and by proxy, writers lose, too."
"If you do care about having a go at this writing thing as a proper career, do not write for exposure. Exposure cannot be measured, and you might as well write for any number of invisible things: the dreams of sleeping kittens, perhaps, or mystical unicorn turds. You should always be getting something measurable for your writing."
"I've always maintained that no publisher should make more money off of a book than the writer does. They publish thousands of books a year—but this is the only one (or two) I'm going to do. This also applies to the Amazons of the world. We the writers should be king of the hill because we provide the content."
"Write the kind of stories that you'd love to read, not what you think will please other people or the market in general. If you love it, there's a good chance that others will too, and those readers will tell their friends."
"As an artist, you want as many people to see your work as possible with no compromise. .... I don't want to .... have it watered down, and follow a soap opera, and have all the edges filed down and have someone interfere. .... Delivering the exact thing that I made ... that's so important to me, you know, that's, I said, the ideal of the most beautiful and purest thing. And it's how little it can be ruined from your brain to the observer. And that's the way you do everything yourself, really, because, you know, I've probably only produced and directed to protect my writing, the idea, you know?"
"An abandoned story at page one or page 356 has the same value as a story you never wrote in the first place."
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