Apologies in advance for ranting, but this touches several hot buttons. I couldn't possibly disagree more with Moose. If you want to produce work that pleases the largest number of people, go and publish picture of celebrities’ breasts. People love it, check out any supermarket news-stand. Don't try to get into other people's heads. There's only one human being whose tastes and feelings you really understand, and that's you.
I speak from my experience as a reasonably and occasionally unreasonably popular writer. I have occasionally consciously published something that I thought covered gripping essential issues, with a huge investment of effort and multiple rewrites, and seen it sink like a stone, unnoticed. Then a 45-minute squib that I write while watching TV goes viral and gets 200,000 page-views. I'm not smart enough, and I don't think anyone's smart enough, to predict what people are going to like, and I think that pursuing it is deeply corrupting. I'm pretty dogmatic: You should only bother sharing things that move *you*. I bet if you talked to any artist, any genre, who really moved the needle (not that I'm one of those), you'd probably hear the same thing. -T On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Moose Peterson discusses how to edit; ie: learning how to choose just > your best work. > > I like his suggestion of getting work on a restaurant wall and then > observing people's reactions to it. Could be a cringe-worthy exercise! > > http://www.moosepeterson.com/blog/2013/01/04/to-share-or-not-to-share/ > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
