1/ new Moldbug piece https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/the-deep-state-vs-the-deep-right/ … I love this > Art...aims at supreme aesthetic excellence. It does not even deign to notice its audience. One thing I disagree with many of the pulprev, etc. people is "we give the audience what they want" I, for one, do NOT.
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I balance that against "I'm never going to learn to write a great novel if I don't keep cranking out books, and if people will pay me for them, all the better..."
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entirely reasonable ! I think my approach to a first novel was kind of objectively stupid
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Not that I'm a notable anything, but my go-to has been "if I was in the audience, would I like it?" - to get around the only-like-it-because-you're-familiar-with-it issue.
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I didn't find the dogs very realistic. But I had fun with your book.
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