Re: books
to be blatantly honest about my motivations for wondering about it amounts purely to money. if someone will give me a few thousand bucks for it, i'm not above saying no considering the amount of effort involved. if the quality of the story is good, there's nothing wrong with it, per se. it's not like i ever set out to do it, most of my junk is pretty locked into a genre, but it occured to me there was that one story that could go several different ways. too, in my mind, the more people who reads what i write the better off i am, right? how bizarre it would be to have the same book appear twice on the same bestseller list simutaneously.
i'd call it greed and good business in the same breath, at least in theory. it could even be a good writing excercise. why send a ms in unless you want to make money from your effort (generally speaking)? are we not all whores to a certain degree, not even a little? given the idea that for newer writers, especially, that our labour doesn't even amount to minimum wage, from a purely economic standpoint is there a fault to be had in the idea? hey, if you can double or even triple your income, go for it. okay, so it doesn't exactly speak to my creative side, but it sure does make sense from a practical one.