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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2/ John Barnes looked at the third draft of my novel and told me "You can probably sell it to Baen" ouch
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3/ Now, that's prima donna BS on my part. Howeverpic.twitter.com/bu95PLjG86
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4/ It's entirely reasonable for working men to deliver decent quality product to earn money to pay the rent. More power to them. But I am not writing for my audience. I am writing a very specific thing that I want to exist for my own reasons, with my own name on the cover.
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5/ When I deliver a thing, it will find an audience. That audience may be zero people, or it may be 200 million. (So far, it's at the "rounds to zero" end of that continuum). But that's OK.
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6/ It would be wonderful if readers enjoy my novels, but I am not writing for the readers. I am writing for arete. Moldbug, as usual, is right.
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Replying to @MorlockP
I agree, of course, with all of that I'll note that my own particular form of creative expression IS performance, and I can no more ignore them than you can ignore your sentence structure.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP
One can imagine a performing artist who doesn't care whether anyone shows up - let alone enjoys the work - but even so the performance is FOR a hypothetical audience, even if that audience never actually exists. ... but that's sidewise to your point, which of course is correct.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP
I suppose the equivalent construction for your work is "writing for a reader, not for an audience". Surely you always have the hypothetical reader in mind when writing. Art without craft is empty.
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