01-19-2016, 08:01 AM
On one hand, if I work for six weeks writing a genre novel, it will fulfill the needs of a majority of my country's readers. On the other, if I spend the next ten years writing and rewriting a novel in my piss stained and shit crusted pants, since I can't afford underwear, throughout that time period I'll be viewed and treated as a loony prick. So what do some of you here think about the importance of literature? For someone like me who can't concentrate worth a three leaf clover, would you rather stick with your creative impulses or take the proprietor of Slim Hills Tobacco & Number 2 Pencils Emporium up on his job offer and forget about concentration needed to try to write decently?