>Reading some genre trash
>"Damn, I could write better than this"
>Sit down and write for 30 minutes
>Read it over
>It's genre trash
Is getting published a matter of just not caring that you're writing genre trash?
>>8069155
And what exactly was Gaddis right about?
A lot of genre writers have lengthy histories with writers and books of that genre. Is this history necessary? I dunno, but I imagine sucess is only aided by knowing your audience and their likes and their expectations.
I will add as an aside that many grass roots genre writers seem to start out now on Internet forums specifically geared toward that niche. They'll share samples of their work with the other members and get the ball rolling in that way. Once you garner some interest, it costs you nothing to put a book on Amazon and have that established community buy some copies and leave you good reviews.
>>8069165
That the average writer and reader are both halfwit mongoloids.
>>8069150
Modern publishing is like Modern art in that you often hear the conversation of:
>"I could have done that"
>"Yeah, but you didn't"
>>8069230
reader. yes. but given the hoops one had to jump back in the day before self-publishing, I wouldn't say the average writer is a halfwit.
>>8071149
>back in the day before self-publishing
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass
>Publisher Self
So before 1855?
>>8072006
Don't be obnoxious, anon.
