"The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thing gray ghosts, in good cause; the mortality rate was terrible."
Right now, the only successful writers are the ones who produce manic quantities of opinionated posts on the web. Our profession is in trouble. What if the ruined print industry actually produced blogging hacks like Domenech, handcuffing them to pulp fiction production schedules? I'm scared that ten years from now, thousands of frenzied writers will be publishing millions of disposable blog posts, all of us earning Depression-era salaries.
Before we spend another ounce of energy debating The Fall of Ben Domenech, we should look at the work culture that produced him. It's like Woolrich said, "the mortality rate was terrible."
» Five Easy Questions, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Part One from ThePublishingSpot
From running marathons to writing books, Jeffrey Yamaguchi is the busiest writer who ever visited these pages. Most recently, he created the 52 Projects site, the most distracting website I found since BoingBoing. 52 Projects showcase... [Read More]
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