Nathan Bransford, my agent crush, posted Thursday about Stephen King's comments on Twilight author Stephanie Meyer (King thinks Meyer's writing stinks). Nathan posed a super-interesting question: "Who decides what is 'good', anyway?" Is it readers, writers, critics/experts or scholars?
My short answer is...all of the above. Like a well-run democracy, it takes all input from all perspectives to keep things in balance. I agree that as a population we're too heavy on the "pop culture" right now, but I believe that - just like the economy - this type of thing runs in cycles. Eventually the majority of us will get tired of easy-reading pop fiction and long again for literary substance. I think, as long as none of the folks above leave the party (or are forced out), we'll be fine.
Anyway, yesterday Nathan shared his own thoughts on the topic, which you'll find here. I won't even try to paraphrase; he's one articulate dude.
Feb 7, 2009
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I've been following Nathan's post as well. I even wrote my own thoughts on my blog, much like yours. Thanks for stopping by my blog to say hi. Sounds like we have a lot in common. I'm a married mother of one four-year-old. I'm not currently working, but I'm trying to decide whether or not to go back next year (what I would really love is to focus on a writing career). I also love writing fantasy. You should check out some of the links to other authors on my blogs. Several of them are querying, or agented and have a lot of great insight. A lot of them are moms too and are trying to play the balancing game.
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