{"id":2175,"date":"2009-01-12T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2009-01-12T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:05:22","slug":"smart-things-gene-wolfe-knows-the-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/smart-things-gene-wolfe-knows-the-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Things: Gene Wolfe Knows The Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>The Commercial vs the Artistic in writing &#8211; is there a genuine difference between these two philosophies or are they artifical attributes? Are they in opposition, and if so, can they meet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The difference seems to me very genuine.  The error is to think them antithetical.  The purely commercial writer writes for the editor.  The purely artistic writer writes for himself or herself.  I write for the reader.  As long as the editor buys it, I don\u2019t much care what he thinks of it.  If it\u2019s a good solid story, that\u2019s enough for me.  But if the reader doesn\u2019t like it, it\u2019s a failure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebulaawards.com\/index.php\/interview\/gene_wolfe\/#When:11:00:00Z\">an interview<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The Commercial vs the Artistic in writing &#8211; is there a genuine difference between these two philosophies or are they artifical attributes? Are they in opposition, and if so, can they meet? The difference seems to me very genuine. The error is to think them antithetical. The purely commercial writer writes for the editor. The purely artistic writer writes for&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/smart-things-gene-wolfe-knows-the-score\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[334,340,238,125,157],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-people-say-smart-things","tag-author","tag-gene-wolfe","tag-philosophy","tag-quote","tag-smart-things","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-z5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}