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Peter's avatar

>>> actually said to me, “Yes, but I like to turn out quality work.”

Wow. Talk about a stuck-up writer turning up their nose at people right in front of them. There was no self-awareness whatsoever there. I bet that one is a real treat at a pot-luck or any other "luck" - wrinkling the old nose at everything they smell. Or read.

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Yup. And of course, she made that judgement without bothering to read even one of my stories or novels. Ignorance knows no bounds.

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Dawn Turner's avatar

I've found that consistently among writers like that one. They make a judgment call based on ASSUMPTION, not because they've actually ever read anything I've written. Of course, we know the truth about people who ASSUME, so... the joke's on them. LOL

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Dawn Turner's avatar

Ain't it the truth! It's amazing how much time writers DON'T spend writing but consider writing time. Formulating synopses and query letters for publishers/competitions/agents are hugely time-consuming, but they aren't actually writing. Editing and rewriting and editing and rewriting aren't writing. Research for a writing project isn't writing. Hanging out on social media for hours a day to chat with folks isn't writing. So many writers spend an inordinate amount of time and energy on that stuff, then they often gripe about not having time to actually WRITE FICTION. Well, duh. There are only so many hours in the day. Hello!

My personal life has finally settled down some, so I can actually put my butt in a chair for more than

a few minutes at a time AND be awake enough to write, so that's what I've been doing. I don't waste that valuable time and energy on all the stuff other writers call "writing". I spend it putting stories to paper. If they think that means I'm writing "fast", they need to reassess how much time they're wasting on non-writing and actually put their butts in their chairs to WRITE. I think they'd be surprised what they accomplish.

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Bingeux. I suspect many of them have no clue how very fleeting and therefore valuable time truly is.

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Vincent Zandri's avatar

Good one UH!

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

Thanks, Vin. I was kind'a hoping you'd see that one.

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Vincent Zandri's avatar

Glad I didn't ...and I'm in full agreement. I wonder if Papa actually read the entirety of For Whom the Bell Tolls every morning when he was writing the final chapters. He probably just cycled back ten or so chapters.

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Harvey Stanbrough's avatar

I guess we'll never know. Whatever he did, he was the ultimate master at the craft.

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Emilia's avatar

I forgot to comment. Thank you for the romantasy link, I had an itch that most of my high fantasy short stories with a romantic plot propably aren't romantasy and would not meet reader expectations.

Nora Roberts might have romantasy books to study. I know she has romance books with fantasy elements.

Christine Pope has a book which showed how weigh fantasy and romance. The climax of the book was the couple resolving their issues and kissing. Then the villain got stuck with a sword and that was that. As a fantasy reader I was confused, but realized that the story was a romance first, and fantasy second. An epic fight after true love kiss would'be thrown the book off balance.

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