The Four Second Body
Thursday, January 13th, 2011 by admin | Posted in Books | Comments
When you write a book, the publishers always want to weigh its quality by the pound. They want big, thick books–lots of pages and words– because they believe in some form of fuzzy, ancient, pre-digital age logic, that people judge value by heft. They don’t judge ideas or inspiration. Instead, they look at the way the manuscript tips the scales (or heaven forbid, fails to).
I have this battle all of the time. I don’t want to write words for the sake of a numbers count. Once I have
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January 13th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
I could not agree more! I am so tired of having dig my way through hundreds of pages of drivel to find the promised nuggets. Not only is it tiring, it’s boring and waste of time. If you have something to say, say it and move on.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:54 am
We have lost the art of getting to the point. Gone with fluff/with window dressing.
December 24th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
My biggest weakness in weight loss is pizza! It is an every day battle for me!