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<blockquote data-quote="PaulKemp" data-source="post: 3646602" data-attributes="member: 2809"><p>No worries. I'm not offended by it and appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Lots of folks have had bad experiences with tie-in fiction. But the questions of whether a writer is "really good" and "creative," IMO, do not relate to whether or not one writes in a tie-in world or not. </p><p></p><p>Consider: "Literary" fiction is set in our world (the original "shared world" of fiction, so to speak). There's no macro world building, as such; there's just bringing a setting that already exists to life through the words on the page and the eyes of the characters. In a sense, it's presenting/re-interpreting what's already there in a way that will engage the reader. It's for the author to give earth richness. In every way that matters, that's exactly what a tie-in writer does with his/her underlying setting (or at least what I try to do). Is that somehow less creative than creating Nehwon or Melnibone or Middle Earth from scratch? Even if it is less creative in some way, does that mere fact speak at all to the underlying literary merit of the work? </p><p> </p><p>Incidentally, there are a lot of reasons why a writer may choose to stick with tie-in even if he/she could be doing something else. In my case, I write novels in FR (even as I write non-tie-in short stories) because I quite enjoy the setting and the characters/stories that I've created in it (I'm lucky in that my character, after the current trilogy, will have starred in seven novels). On the business side, I enjoy the fans, the editors with whom I've worked, the distribution chain of my publisher, the sales figures, and the certainty of a novel a year for the foreseeable future. Authors with other publishers rarely enjoy those things and their career situation from year to year is much more uncertain. The upshot is that I stay with FR because I'm satisfied both creatively and with the business arrangement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulKemp, post: 3646602, member: 2809"] No worries. I'm not offended by it and appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Lots of folks have had bad experiences with tie-in fiction. But the questions of whether a writer is "really good" and "creative," IMO, do not relate to whether or not one writes in a tie-in world or not. Consider: "Literary" fiction is set in our world (the original "shared world" of fiction, so to speak). There's no macro world building, as such; there's just bringing a setting that already exists to life through the words on the page and the eyes of the characters. In a sense, it's presenting/re-interpreting what's already there in a way that will engage the reader. It's for the author to give earth richness. In every way that matters, that's exactly what a tie-in writer does with his/her underlying setting (or at least what I try to do). Is that somehow less creative than creating Nehwon or Melnibone or Middle Earth from scratch? Even if it is less creative in some way, does that mere fact speak at all to the underlying literary merit of the work? Incidentally, there are a lot of reasons why a writer may choose to stick with tie-in even if he/she could be doing something else. In my case, I write novels in FR (even as I write non-tie-in short stories) because I quite enjoy the setting and the characters/stories that I've created in it (I'm lucky in that my character, after the current trilogy, will have starred in seven novels). On the business side, I enjoy the fans, the editors with whom I've worked, the distribution chain of my publisher, the sales figures, and the certainty of a novel a year for the foreseeable future. Authors with other publishers rarely enjoy those things and their career situation from year to year is much more uncertain. The upshot is that I stay with FR because I'm satisfied both creatively and with the business arrangement. [/QUOTE]
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