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Originally Posted by John Jarrold  But things do move - horror is coming back, for instance after years in the doldrums, commercially. Fantasy is more varied and sophisticated than it was a decade or more ago. However, nothing changes overnight, and the first person to attempt to rehabilitate an uncommercial area of a genre is usually thought of as 'brave', rather than 'innovative'. |
Does it mean that being 'brave' is also being 'stupid', as those two words are so closely tied together. Should one stop on what they are doing, and write something else, <sarcasm> so what world can only know one type of books </sarcasm>?
On personal note, by my calculations, I'm around three fifth through my fourth version, with 78 000 words on the meter, and I am having big doubts on commercial world. Unfortunately reading this forum, especially yours and Theresa's words scare **** out of me, and want make me to go back in bed and hide under the duvet. But I can't as I have to 'brave' and 'bold' and go there where others hasn't been for ages.