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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 99373" data-attributes="member: 87">The key reason that I am abandoning my setting is that I am no longer happy with it.  The first audience - me - rejects it.  It took me a while to realize that.  That said, I didn't say that all great literature was written to appease the masses - but there is much of it that was written that way - in particular, stage plays.  Shakespeare anyone?  And virtually all great literature that survives to us today appeals to the larger audience regardless of whether or not the author intended such.In the end, I alone must enjoy my work before I can realistically expect anyone to enjoy it.  A million people could enjoy the setting, but I don't think that would change how I feel about it now. A good, but loose analogy, is a marriage that ends in divorce.  Such affairs can continue for a long time before it is realized that there comes an end.  It has taken me a while to realize I should start again.  I have, and I intend to.My response to this jibe is quite simple.  I do not consider myself a great author.  That would be arrogance.I do consider myself a good author.  I'll go out on a limb and say that I think that I am at least as good as half the novel writers out there today.  I do believe I have the talent to get published.  If I didn't, I would be devoting my energies elsewhere.In the end, I need a setting to write about for myself and maybe even a gaming group.  I haven't DM'ed in far too long, and now that I'm an Over The Road Trucker it will be a long time before I can enjoy my hobby again.Flowers in the Wind, my novel, has been read by my close friends, and they've adored it.  Am I wrong to want to get it to a larger audience?  I think not.</blockquote>

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