God dam the educated, for they are inherently stupid and left unchecked they would afflict others with their stupidity. They are the drones of society, idly spreading gossip and rumour. If I more educated than you, and held as educated in your mind. Do you not take my words as gospel and spread them as the only truth. Did someone not say the earth was flat, and were the others not educated to this fact? Surely an intelligent man would see the sky meet the earth before his eyesight did stop and say of his doubt.
Today the author, trained and educated in his trade, does not pause for thought. An intelligent man may ask. Why are book sales falling? Why are libraries closing? Why can't I get a publishing deal? Blindly, the educated man seeks more education from the educated. He tries harder to write to the level of his peers.
You learned to write along time ago though times have changed since then. You are no longer the market leaders in mental stimulation to the masses. In the house, you've competition from the TV and the Playstation. Outside, you're being assaulted by the walkman and the mobile phone. It seems you lack the intelligence or innovation to format a strategy for survival.
Refusing to accept 80% of the urban public, don't want to read the wares you pedal, your answer seems to be obsess over the arc of the second act. I'm inspired by the disparagement of me by the educated, and what's more you've left 80% of the market all to me. All those people capable of reading, but don't. My trump card – I'm one of them.
Not being a reader, I can only write what I know, TV. From the multi-protagonist serials, to the single camera sitcoms. I'm fully trained in them all, years of studying their construction. The question is, untainted by literature am I able to write TV. Not a screenplay, they are for actors. In literary style, I'm already part way there. In choreography, I already write of who walked where and personal imagery a little too much. In referencing I already favour the screen. “White like Casper,” is preferred to “A pale English rose.”
So while you 'authors' are claiming television (the screen) is for thick people. Here's expos latest top money earning writers. What do they all have in common?
1 JK.Rowling ?160 million [$283 million]
2 James Patterson ?26.7 million [$47 million]
3 Stephen King ?24 million [$42 million]
4 Tom Clancy ?18.7 million [$33 million]
5 Danielle Steel ?16 million [$28 million]
6= John Grisham ?13 million [$23 million]
6= Dean Koontz ?13 million [$23 million]
8 Ken Follett ?10.6 million [$18.7 million]
9 Janet Evanovich ?9 million [$16 million]
10 Nicholas Sparks ?8.5 million [$15 million]
They've all been to Hollywood, except Janet Evanovich but I have it on good authority she's on her way there now.
So there you have it, maybe I'm just trying to cut out the middleman on the road to success.
My last thought to the self-publishers. Public transport is your friend. Sod the editor. If the man on the tube or the woman on the bus likes you. - You have hope.
Now, I've educated you all.