“Right” hand, “Left” hand

Artists create something they love, and hope they can sell it.    Businesspeople find an existing market and create something for it.  These two positions feel antagonistic. It is why Producers often feel that Writers are children, and Writers feel that producers and publishers are philistines.   They speak different languages.

 

The trick is to see where the circles (what you want, what the audience wants) overlaps, and write there. The luckiest among us do this instinctively.   But if you d...