Comments on: One thing I’m not going to do… http://www.chuqui.com/2009/11/one-thing-im-not-going-to-do/ I'll keep reinventing myself until I get it right. (3.2 2009-11-21) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:12:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Rodgers http://www.chuqui.com/2009/11/one-thing-im-not-going-to-do/comment-page-1/#comment-3181 Alan Rodgers Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:03:50 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=4998#comment-3181 > Fiction writing is a tough market. It hasn’t<br>> gotten any better in the time I’ve been away, in<br>> fact it’s harder now to succeed as a writer than<br>> it was 10 or 15 years ago, and the pay scale is<br>> about the same.<br><br>Chuq, go into your local superstore and look at the shelves. The SF section is full of weird experiments, to the point where the whole genre looks like it's going away.<br><br>Then go over to the YA section (which in a regular stores is only 2x the size of the SF shelves, but in the superstores can be gargantuan) and read a little at what's on the shelves.<br><br>Somebody has pilfered SF's readers. I don't think they're coming back. > Fiction writing is a tough market. It hasn’t
> gotten any better in the time I’ve been away, in
> fact it’s harder now to succeed as a writer than
> it was 10 or 15 years ago, and the pay scale is
> about the same.

Chuq, go into your local superstore and look at the shelves. The SF section is full of weird experiments, to the point where the whole genre looks like it's going away.

Then go over to the YA section (which in a regular stores is only 2x the size of the SF shelves, but in the superstores can be gargantuan) and read a little at what's on the shelves.

Somebody has pilfered SF's readers. I don't think they're coming back.

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