This weeks episode is not up to our usual audio standards due to some technical difficulties.
Are artists seen differently now? We had a discussion on the opportunities and problems with self publishing, as well as the increased respect for artists.
Crissy also finished her novel! After discovering that she had a problem with one of her finial chapters, she was able to overcome her writer’s block. Maya also took a huge step and sent four short stories to an editor.
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This Weeks Writing Prompt:
They say if you drop off a building, the whole of your life flashes before you. So if you do that, what is the one thing that flashes before you.
I think the big five structure of publishing came around ~early / mid-20th century.
This guy — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Perkins — is one of the big big names and I *think* the turning point.
That is really interesting. I knew that it was a fairly new structure but hadn’t done any serious research on how it began. I’ll have to see if there is a good biography on him.