I apologize for ranting, but you touched a hot button. If you talk to any really successful artist, any medium, or even a moderately-successful online writer like myself, you'll hear the same story: Trying to guess and aim at what's popular is a loser's game. My personal experience: I publish finely-crafted essays on Subjects That Matter and they sink like a stone; later that week I whip off a squib in 45 minutes while watching TV and it becomes an Internet Meme.
Bah. The only audience you can satisfy is yourself. Don't guess at what others will like. -T On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still trying to decide between the popular and what I like. > > On 2/2/2011 3:31 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> After the fist month of accepting submissions for the 2011 edition >> things are looking good. We've got some fine photos uploaded to the >> Vault. I know full well, however, that there a lot of you with great >> images who haven't yet uploaded anything. Come on, get with the >> program! >> >> Looking forward to seeing your best shots. >> >> http://www.robertstech.com/pdmlbook/pdmlbook.php >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
