Paying For Books(tbray.org)

8 pointsby wglb17 anni fa6 comments

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/21/On-Books

4 comments

Writing a million words is a walk in the park. Picking the best 40,000 of those words is a grueling pinions-and-ropes ascent up a mountain. Selling those 40,000 words to people is reaching the summit of Everest while wearing a bathing suit and coated in Crisco.

Jach17 anni fa

I remember reading somewhere that the first million words you write are crap, anyway.

wglb17 anni fa

Wasn't that what Ray Bradbury said about his own first million or half million words?

mark_l_watson17 anni fa

I buy and read about 2 books a month in addition to using the local library so I share Tim's desire to keep the pipeline full of interesting things to read. Publishing has been a good business for centuries, but we do need a way to encourage writers given lots of free material on the Internet.

TheBigD17 anni fa

Seems to miss the point. The hard part of writing is editing, not producing. Nobody wants to read 40,000 random words; the internal act of curating is the hardest part.

Tichy17 anni fa

Some guy likes another guy's blog post?