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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6964710" data-attributes="member: 12731">That's actually a great illustration of the salient point, although probably not the one you think. I don't know Kafka or any of his relatives. I haven't stumbled across a scarred but still readable original copy (or, in this day, randomly wandered onto his creaky old website).The way I know of Kafka (his name, his works) is through other people. Their recommendations, as it were. And not just random people. Established publishing house. Literary Critics. (Read stern boring school teachers ;-)The question you are asking can be answered &quot;yes, he was a writer&quot;.But the more important answer is: &quot;if nobody reads him, does it matter?&quot;After all, all your examples aren't just of people that 1. are great writers. All of your examples include 2. that are discovered too.The analogy here is that DMs guild is like Kafka before fame and fortune (yes, I know what I did there). In contrast to when Kafka gets published by EN Publishing or gets hired by WotC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6964710, member: 12731"] That's actually a great illustration of the salient point, although probably not the one you think. I don't know Kafka or any of his relatives. I haven't stumbled across a scarred but still readable original copy (or, in this day, randomly wandered onto his creaky old website). The way I know of Kafka (his name, his works) is through other people. Their recommendations, as it were. And not just random people. Established publishing house. Literary Critics. (Read stern boring school teachers ;-) The question you are asking [I]can[/I] be answered "yes, he was a writer". [B]But the more important answer is: "if nobody reads him, does it matter?"[/B] After all, all your examples aren't just of people that 1. are great writers. All of your examples include [I]2. that are discovered[/I] too. The analogy here is that DMs guild is like Kafka [I]before[/I] fame and fortune (yes, I know what I did there). In contrast to when Kafka gets published by EN Publishing or gets hired by WotC. [/QUOTE]

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