tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post4132986568151734808..comments2023-06-18T04:17:59.375-04:00Comments on Dogslandia: The Rise of Writers Versus Readers, a theory presented with no evidence whatsoever...J m mcdermotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433637277106963701noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-71947746939772326752011-09-01T11:48:23.930-04:002011-09-01T11:48:23.930-04:00I wonder if we couldn't track the real economi...I wonder if we couldn't track the real economic recovery of our nation by measuring the slushpile at Tor's offices (or Asimov's or F&SF...). Some brave economist should get on that.J m mcdermotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433637277106963701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-15575153490612866792011-09-01T10:09:32.513-04:002011-09-01T10:09:32.513-04:00I've heard the same argument about there being...I've heard the same argument about there being more writers than poets since the late Seventies.<br /><br />Thomas McCormack, the famed fiction editor of St. Martin's Press, said the same thing about novels and novelists in THE FICTION EDITOR, THE NOVEL, AND THE NOVELIST which was printed in 1988, and this was when a vast majority of writers were using typewriters and very few were on the Internet. <br /><br />As a writing teacher, I've been stunned by the number of new writers who want to write but who don't read what they want to write. It's a formula for disaster, but until the rise of self-publishing, these folks were only hurting themselves and not inflicting their cliches and bad writing on others.Marilynn Byerlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16720129999636676998noreply@blogger.com