Comments on: The writer as entrepreneur http://futurismic.com/2007/11/22/the-writer-as-entrepreneur/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tomas Martin http://futurismic.com/2007/11/22/the-writer-as-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-7404 Tomas Martin Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:36:15 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/22/the-writer-as-entrepreneur/#comment-7404 I do think the Movie and Music industries have one main problem - they are run by businessmen who sell art. Increasingly the businessmen, especially in Hollywood, seem to have decided that all these writers aren't really all that important. And with all the money, they have to be listened to. The number of horror stories of good pitches being ruined by executives who don't know anything about writing are legion. However the model changes, if artistic output is to get more consistent, the writers and directors need to be left to do what they do best far more than they do now. I do think the Movie and Music industries have one main problem – they are run by businessmen who sell art. Increasingly the businessmen, especially in Hollywood, seem to have decided that all these writers aren’t really all that important. And with all the money, they have to be listened to.

The number of horror stories of good pitches being ruined by executives who don’t know anything about writing are legion. However the model changes, if artistic output is to get more consistent, the writers and directors need to be left to do what they do best far more than they do now.

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