Today I was just telling a friend that it’s pretty easy to write an inconsequential novel where nothing happens, because all one has to do is to be careful with his words and just write whatever that comes to mind. It’s getting published that is hard. But I guess if one can make his book sound arty-farty enough, publishers and reviewers will sanction it. And then I was saying that it’s pretty hard to write one of those grail-chasing novels (that I get duped into buying at every book sale, no doubt) because as an author one would have to keep up with the rest of the grail-writers so that one doesn’t get accused of plagiarism. And on a larger level, I think it’s quite phenomenal to be able to churn out 34861294381 grail chasing stories with the same schema, just different artifact, era, and characters.
So there. Just a little tidbit on what I think about the books I read.
