Regular visitors to TVWriter™ know I spend a lot of time (some may say too much) writing about gearing your work toward its intended audience. The reason for that is this variation of an old philosophical conundrum:
“If a teleplay, screenplay, novel, or short story is written but never read or viewed, does it really exist?”
In my younger, more ambitious days, the answer to this question was a quick and usually angry shout: “HELL %^#@ing NO!”
A hell of a lot of people I know write at Starbucks. They drive, bicycle, even walk to their comfort zone there.
Also, a hell of a lot of people I know don’t write at Starbucks. Some drive, bicycle, and even walk to their comfy offices wherever they may be.
Not necessarily in that order.
…Or is our worldview contaminated by omnipresent cognitive dissonance? (Asking for an invisible friend.)
Personally, I think we’re all in the Philip K. Dick-verse but haven’t yet made up my mind if Phil’s writing created it or it created his writing. (Although I think I know which of those two he believed.)
Do people working their buns off to become writers really not understand how the English language works?
At least the above post answers the question it asks. OTOH, we have this:
