Comments on: Keeping the pipeline full http://pcwrede.com/blog/keeping-the-pipeline-full/ Patricia C. Wrede talks about writing Sun, 19 May 2013 16:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Alex Fayle http://pcwrede.com/blog/keeping-the-pipeline-full/comment-page-1/#comment-3833 Alex Fayle Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:25:52 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-3833 This is why I'm taking the long view. When I was running my own business I was always looking for passive income that I'd work at once and would bring me income for years. And now with the e-market and books likely never going out of print, I have that opportunity with my fiction. I'm therefore willing to have the patience to build up a catalogue over the next 10, 15 or 20 years. Let's be the tortoise, not the hare... This is why I’m taking the long view. When I was running my own business I was always looking for passive income that I’d work at once and would bring me income for years. And now with the e-market and books likely never going out of print, I have that opportunity with my fiction.

I’m therefore willing to have the patience to build up a catalogue over the next 10, 15 or 20 years.

Let’s be the tortoise, not the hare…

]]> By: Mary http://pcwrede.com/blog/keeping-the-pipeline-full/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Mary Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:47:06 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-3831 It can be disconcerting if you shift from stories to novels because they are so much bigger a commitment -- what's happening to the pipeline? It can be disconcerting if you shift from stories to novels because they are so much bigger a commitment — what’s happening to the pipeline?

]]> By: Chicory http://pcwrede.com/blog/keeping-the-pipeline-full/comment-page-1/#comment-3829 Chicory Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:22:00 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-3829 Lol! Writing different novels with his left and right hand! I don't have much to say, except this post makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you for writing it. Lol! Writing different novels with his left and right hand! I don’t have much to say, except this post makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you for writing it.

]]> By: Tim Silverman http://pcwrede.com/blog/keeping-the-pipeline-full/comment-page-1/#comment-3828 Tim Silverman Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:35:58 +0000 http://pcwrede.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-3828 There's also the opposite danger as exemplified by Charlie Stross, where, in a desperate attempt to squeeze money out the pipeline by writing harder, you end up contracting for two different series for two different publishers simultaneously, while also trying to deliver short stories to magazines and a standalone novel with a third publisher. (Actually I'm not sure if he really did <i>all</i> of that, but for a long time, whenever we heard from him, he seemed to be having to write so much to fulfill various contracts that I used to imagine him writing different novels with his left and right hands at the same time, and possibly writing a couple of short stories with his toes as well.) There’s also the opposite danger as exemplified by Charlie Stross, where, in a desperate attempt to squeeze money out the pipeline by writing harder, you end up contracting for two different series for two different publishers simultaneously, while also trying to deliver short stories to magazines and a standalone novel with a third publisher. (Actually I’m not sure if he really did all of that, but for a long time, whenever we heard from him, he seemed to be having to write so much to fulfill various contracts that I used to imagine him writing different novels with his left and right hands at the same time, and possibly writing a couple of short stories with his toes as well.)

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