Tom DeMarco
This sounds awful, but write for television.
When I decided to become a writer Hemingway was still writing, Muriel Spark and J.G. Farrell and Iris Murdoch were contending for the Booker Prize, Saturday Review and The Atlantic were crammed with short stories. Today much of that kind of talent has moved over to film and most of all television. The great advantage of writing for television is long form fiction. It's a rare book that can be published at more than 300 pages, but TV stories are developed over years: You probably know Tony Soprano better than you know some members of your own family . . .
When I decided to become a writer Hemingway was still writing, Muriel Spark and J.G. Farrell and Iris Murdoch were contending for the Booker Prize, Saturday Review and The Atlantic were crammed with short stories. Today much of that kind of talent has moved over to film and most of all television. The great advantage of writing for television is long form fiction. It's a rare book that can be published at more than 300 pages, but TV stories are developed over years: You probably know Tony Soprano better than you know some members of your own family . . .
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Tom DeMarco:
Your books and writings, along with Ed Yourdon's have been the guiding light for past 18 years of my career. Thank you for that. It seems the current generation has forgotten your lessons and has refused to learn from mistakes made. How do you propose we make it relevant to the 2-second-attention-span generation?
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