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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IcyCool" data-source="post: 3107575" data-attributes="member: 20308">I'll respond to your points this time around, but we should probably make a new thread if you think this line of discussion will continue.Therein lies the rub.  Is a work "low brow pedestrian" if you like it?  Or does it only meet that criteria if you don't like it, but the "lowest common denominator" does?  Talent has very little to do with success.  Appeal has everything to do with it (IMHO, of course).The questions I asked were out of honest curiousity.  Dustyboots is apparently someone who is a part of that industry, and likely has knowledge about it's inner workings that I do not.  Also, I'd like to know what he/she has done, as I might enjoy it.  No problem on the misunderstanding though.  Words on a screen don't generally convey context or intent.  Readers add those in all the time.But what qualifies as "low brow pedestrian"?  Maybe I thought the dick and fart jokes in movies such as Clerks and Mallrats were "ground-breaking" or "innovative".  And maybe you thought they were "low brow".  These are subjective terms, to be sure.We have a pretty solid way of measuring the value and success of a movie or novel, and it isn't with terms like "ground-breaking" or "innovative".  It's called "sales".Certainly, predicting what will appeal to the majority of people isn't an exact science, and neither is it even easy.Again, what you find to be highly creative, I might find to be utter rubbish.As true then as it is now.Also, to your junk comment, I'll throw another platitude at you: "One man's trash is another man's treasure."I don't mean to say that opinion is not a valuable point, but neither do I think that just because my friends and I think an author or actor is talented, they are.I think talent is a very difficult thing to measure in such a subjective field.All I'm saying is, if I ever decide to write a novel, you can be sure I'm doing it from the comfort of the new house that was paid for by all the trashy romance books I wrote. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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