Re: floreat...
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:01:59 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: floreat...
>
>> This question always engaged me as I passed through the various
>> ages in my own life. (`My God, at this stage, Alexander had
>> conquered much of Asia.... Tolstoy had already written
>> War & Peace.... Mozart was DEAD....')
>
>(: I'm already doing that !
>
>
>> It can only ever be a very subjective judgement but it does seem
>> to me that different kinds of artist have different optimal periods.
>> Poets tend to fade early, novelists come to a peak around
>> their fifties whilst many painters & musicians seem to go on
>> developing forever.
>
>I agree - it's near impossible to categorically prescribe a formula for an
>artists' career. Some have an early burst that fades away, others get
>better and better. The thing that does excite me about a new writer,
>though, is the fact that their early career tends to be a lot more diverse
>than later on. It takes them a while to settle in to exactly what kind of
>writer they'd like to be. Exactly who the writer they turn into is
>determines whether or not they fall into the first or second of those
>categories, but for a little while there it's all anticipation.
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE
>www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>THE INVERTED FOREST
Unfortunately, I have to disagree with some of what you said. In most
cases, I think that new, young, and successful writers of today "settle
into" what will make the most money. I'm thinking of people like Chriton
(sp?) and Grishom who, most likely, sign movie deals before their "novels"
even hit the front display case at the local book store.
Cynically,
Patrick