Writers, Do You Have Something On Your Mind ?

[Razgovory]

Rereading it, it seems to fit your post.  Please identify your criticism in my post.

[grumbler]

Rereading it, it seems to fit your post.  Please identify your criticism in my post.

Please show me where I said I didn't like something.  You either didn't read what I wrote or you read it and decided to create a strawman argument anyway.

[Martinus]

Popped into London today, business was productive,  had time to catch two exhibitions, check out the new boris bike system and go to the British Library for a talk/open panel by four science fiction authors.

That's neither "business" nor "productive".

More like "idle" and "waste of time". 

[jamesww]

Popped into London today, business was productive,  had time to catch two exhibitions, check out the new boris bike system and go to the British Library for a talk/open panel by four science fiction authors.

That's neither "business" nor "productive".

More like "idle" and "waste of time".

[grumbler]

Popped into London today, business was productive,  had time to catch two exhibitions, check out the new boris bike system and go to the British Library for a talk/open panel by four science fiction authors.

That's neither "business" nor "productive".

More like "idle" and "waste of time".

Marti doesn't understand the OP.  Give him a break; English is difficult to learn, and for Slavs it is more difficult than for most.  For Marti, the best policy is to ignore 99% of what he says (like the brainfart he posed above) and mock the other 1%.

[Razgovory]

Rereading it, it seems to fit your post.  Please identify your criticism in my post.

Please show me where I said I didn't like something.  You either didn't read what I wrote or you read it and decided to create a strawman argument anyway.

You said they were pretty clearly potboilers.  I took that as a negative assessment.

[mongers]

This is what he said:
"I don't write for money, I write because I have something on my mind" the example he gave was when his wife left him and took the children, he was left missing the children terribly, living in poverty in a single room. So he wrote his novel 'Greybeard' about a future Earth where humans have become sterile, there are no children and only an ever aging population, this reflecting his 'loss' of his children.   

And I call bullshit.  Aldis may have written some of his stuff because he "couldn't not write it" as someone (Twain, maybe?) once said, but he also wrote a lot of (generally mediocre) stories and  books that were pretty clearly not designed to convoy a deeper meaning or get anything off his chest, but just for the money.  Moreau's Other Island and Frankenstein Unbound are both clearly potboilers.

I think only Phillip Dick was crazed enough to write SF books/stories purely because he had to.  I would believe it if he claimed not to write for money.

I took it to mean, he was illustrating what  his primary motivation was, not that it was a literal truth or that most of the time he never even bothered to cash his publishers cheques.

[Scipio]

I reviewed my senior film script.  It's not Akiva Goldsman bad, so I registered it with the Copyright office, and have dropped it on an agent-feeder website.  It's sad that I'm not appreciably better as a writer now than I was in 1998, although I suspect that most of that is that I haven't done any serious creative writing since then.  Professional writing is simply not comparable.

[mongers]

I reviewed my senior film script.  It's not Akiva Goldsman bad, so I registered it with the Copyright office, and have dropped it on an agent-feeder website.  It's sad that I'm not appreciably better as a writer now than I was in 1998, although I suspect that most of that is that I haven't done any serious creative writing since then.  Professional writing is simply not comparable.

Good for you.