Quote of the Day, Write Because You Must, Publish Because SHOW ME THE MONEY edition.

Sarah Hoyt [Amanda Green], shaking her darn head:

Yesterday, on one of my few forays onto Facebook, I saw several authors debating the so-called wisdom of an article posted in the Huffington Post. The article is basically a warning for self-published authors not to write four books a year.

Yep, you read that correctly. The headline for the article implores indie authors not to write — not publish — but write four books a year.

…Speaking as somebody in a not-completely-unrelated field: you can’t just tell people not to write. Oh, you could, but it won’t do any good.  It’s, among other things, a habit. One with nasty withdrawal symptoms, as Bob Heinlein once noted (and note that he wrote about it).

As for motivations for publishing, that’s simple: I write because I have to, and I ‘publish’ it because I want money. Hold on, I think that there’s a relevant YouTube clip. …Yup, there is (language warning):

Show me the money. SHOW ME THE MONEYYYYY….

Moe Lane

 

4 thoughts on “Quote of the Day, Write Because You Must, Publish Because SHOW ME THE MONEY edition.”

  1. So some pretentious hipster can’t handle the competition** from arts people actually like? Poor snowflake. I’ve always though “successful” art was anything that inspired it’s target audience. If said audience isn’t the kind that pays then the artist has, as they say, chosen…..poorly.
    .
    .
    .
    **Has the HuffPo started paying its contributors yet? No? Well as a commenter noted in Sarah’s post: “Advice is worth what you pay for it.”

    1. Or rather, Moe linked to both Sarah Hoyt and Amanda Green. MGC is a shared blog, alternating by days. Right now Amanda has the Tuesday slot, and Sarah Wednesday. (Sarah did double guest posts today.)
      .
      Sarah also posts at PJmedia, Insty, and ATH.

Comments are closed.