elfs: (Default)
[personal profile] elfs
If money was no object, I'd spend my day writing pretty stories about people finding love and sex, and writing beautiful software to make those stories available to the widest audience available, and creating beautiful illustrations to make those stories and that software vivid and enjoyable.

Date: 2013-06-10 04:56 pm (UTC)
ext_58972: Mad! (Default)
From: [identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com
I would do ...

...

... Pretty much what I'm doing now. Only I'd probably steer my writing output towards what I want to write, rather than what's perceived as commercial by my publishers' marketing departments: take more risks, not work to a 12 month deadline treadmill. Tackle harder, more ambitious projects.

This wouldn't necessarily be hard; my editor at Ace, for one, figures my books are better when I'm following my nose rather than a three book contract roadmap. The reason I don't do that right now is pure and simple cash flow -- I can't afford to follow my nose when it says "this will be the best novel you ever write, and it will go bestseller, but it will take 2-3 years to make it happen, during which time you get to live off your (ha ha ha) savings".

(Oh, and fly business class rather than coach.)
Edited Date: 2013-06-10 04:58 pm (UTC)

Profile

elfs: (Default)
Elf Sternberg

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
111213141516 17
18192021222324
25262728293031

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 3rd, 2025 12:54 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios