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Subject: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:18 am

Which would you rather have written?
A book so perfect that every writer must read it before they seek publication--in fact they have to swear under threat of perjury to have read it and submit to an oral test upon it
or
a book so interesting that people trample one another to buy it?

The remuneration is a paltry $2000.00 in each case.

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:30 am

I kind of wish you had worded the interesting book choice another way. The image of people trampling each other to buy anything is very scary. But I woud still go with choice #2 over choice #1.

Ann Question 293992

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:31 am

I think I would rather have written the books I did write.

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:32 am

Trampling books are more interesting Alice. They can raise your temptations to buy them.

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:18 am

Shelagh wrote:: I think I would rather have written the books I did write.

You should have said--"Mine fit in both categories."

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:13 am

Mine fit in both categories. study

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:16 am

I'm partial to trampling.

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:58 am

The thing is, when a book is not well-written, the problems become a distraction that interferes with interest. I feel that making it interesting is the first step, and perfecting it, the second. Thinking about making it perfect too soon makes it less interesting in the long run.

(My ex once told a group of our friends that I always took a firm stand on everything - squarely straddling the middle of the fence. He meant it as a put-down but I've made it my life's work.)

study

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Ann

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:06 pm

Good for you, Ann. Hard for anyone to argue with you that way!

I think trampling would be good, but if the money is the same, does it really matter? However, I think forcing someone to read it would be a bad thing. Too many would say, "no way am I going to do that!"

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:21 pm

2
I've read some really perfect, hold them up and cover them in award symbol books that are really great, and others that were (imho) wretched. Give me a stampede.

Question 986243

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:50 pm

Neither of the above. I'd prefer one that pays $200,000 rather than $2,000.

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:11 pm

Dick,

Were you, by chance, the teacher's pet?

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:21 pm

$2,000?

I agree with Dick that this amount needs to be much higher.

Malcolm

Subject: Re: Question Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:43 pm

Too bad--complainers get nothing. Question 94519

Subject: Re: Question Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:13 am

I like option two, forget about the income a good trampling makes for a good horror movie.

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