On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Hear, hear!! Or is that "here, here!"? Whatever, I agree 100%. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
