[HN Gopher] Why Did She Stop Writing?
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       Why Did She Stop Writing?
        
       Author : newest
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-06-01 19:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | kgwgk wrote:
       | Headline: << Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why
       | Did She Stop Writing? >>
        
       | MisterBastahrd wrote:
       | I gotta say... I would have quit writing the moment I became
       | successful enough to be required to sit at book signings. I can't
       | imagine sitting there all day long, bored out of my skull, faking
       | like I care about these people. I got out of recruiting because
       | of how utterly disingenuous the career is and how boring the work
       | was, and the non-creative parts of being an author have zero
       | appeal to me.
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | I never minded doing book signings at events but it usually
         | only lasted 30 minutes or so. That said, I did one full-length
         | book (and a second edition) with a publisher and would never do
         | another full-length given it's not really a career benefit at
         | this point.
        
       | avadhesh18 wrote:
       | Thank god for that!
        
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