MOODY WRITING: literature

All stories get more complicated the further you get into them.

This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just inevitable. The reader starts off knowing nothing, and over the course of the story they get fed more and more information.

If it’s a properly written story anything the reader is told will be relevant to further developments. That means they have to remember everything that’s happened so far and how it relates to everything else that’s also happened and everything that’s going to happen.

This network of events, consequences and reactions will get ever more intricate. To the point where it can become so overwhelming that when a character says, “Hey, Mary’s back!” all the reader thinks is, Who the hell is Mary?

Ideas don't follow the laws of commerce. They are not objects. They are not a product. They don't run on batteries.

Information is not a fuel that you can pump out of one mind and into another. You can't price it at dollars per barrel.

If our society made money obsolete and whatever you wanted was free, would people stop writing books, making music, putting on plays?

The following video is 4 minutes long but very pertinent to anyone considering selling books online.

Did you discover your favourite author through someone lending you a book? Pick up something at a library? Read it at school? Intelligent humans like to read. They enjoy it, they benefit from it, and others around them benefit too. And it generates money. Lots of it. Always has. But not because of copyrights and intellectual properties and strict regulation.