Richard McGowan's Blog: Smashed-Rat-On-Press - Posts Tagged "lap"
Hit Your Brakes and Pull into the Slow Lane
Let's all slow down and work on our quality instead of releasing so darn many novels in rapid fire... (This came to my attention via The Digital Reader, by the way, so thanks.)
It seems to me that what this blogger calls the culture of write-fast, publish-much is one more part of the infectious modern notion that tells us "success" always has to be measured by quantity, whether that be sales volume or income wads, and speed.
The modern methodology, for everything "informational" from software to journalism seems to be:
0. Slap something together.
1. Sling your draft at a bunch of customers.
2. See if they report any big problems.
3. If not, then you're done, so go to Step 0.
4. If someone reported problems, then rinse a little and go to Step 1.
5. Go to Step 0.
I don't necessarily agree that every draft of every item needs to be churned through more hoops just for the churning. But time to mellow is good. A lot of writers, especially the new and the green and the newly green indie, could easily spend quite a bit more time grooming and fawning over their creations before sending those babies out onto the streets... Er, I mean, into the catalog pages...
It seems to me that what this blogger calls the culture of write-fast, publish-much is one more part of the infectious modern notion that tells us "success" always has to be measured by quantity, whether that be sales volume or income wads, and speed.
The modern methodology, for everything "informational" from software to journalism seems to be:
0. Slap something together.
1. Sling your draft at a bunch of customers.
2. See if they report any big problems.
3. If not, then you're done, so go to Step 0.
4. If someone reported problems, then rinse a little and go to Step 1.
5. Go to Step 0.
I don't necessarily agree that every draft of every item needs to be churned through more hoops just for the churning. But time to mellow is good. A lot of writers, especially the new and the green and the newly green indie, could easily spend quite a bit more time grooming and fawning over their creations before sending those babies out onto the streets... Er, I mean, into the catalog pages...
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