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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9506138" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That would be very disappointing, then, because both of those things tend to result in weak results. As C.S. Lewis put it with regard to children's literature, the real best reason to write a novel is because you have something to say that is best expressed by being put into novel form. (He allowed for one fine-but-not-ideal reason for writing a children's book, namely "you told a story for one specific child, who enjoyed it, and thus want to share it with other children, who might also enjoy it", but the true best reason to write a children's book was that a children's book would be the best way to express your ideas.)If you write a book simply for profit and no other reason, that will come out in the work. If you write a book with passion but without purpose, that will come out in the work, too. Yet if you write something because you really feel it needs to be written, I find that more often than not, the finished product will be something compelling enough that people will in fact pay for it. (Well, so long as you actually hire an editor worth what you paid them. Editing is fantastically important.)Chasing profit first is, unfortunately, a very good way to not actually profit very much. Like happiness. Trying desperately to be happy is unlikely to actually produce much happiness (this is a documented phenomenon). But if instead you dedicate yourself to something compelling or interesting, you'll often find yourself having stumbled keister-backwards into happiness almost by accident.</blockquote>

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