![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, no, actors don’t make great novelists, but that’s no slight on actors. ![]() The result of all this is pretty straightforward: novelists are the only great novelists (and even they are rarely great). The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer.Debuts are rarely a novelist’s best work, and often this is because many of the “rules” of fiction are notoriously difficult to articulate, let alone learn in practice and eventually wield with grace. The writing, revising, copyediting, marketing, publishing, and promotion of a single novel can take many years. A novelist must keep all of this in their head, balance the bewildering intricacies of one’s own novel with the endless possibilities available for improving it. Then the revision process demands not only complete overhauls, but also infinitesimal tweaks that can sometimes cause reverberations throughout the rest of the story. Constructing a complex narrative with tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of words is really, really- really-difficult merely completing a draft of a novel is a major accomplishment. But the reason this is true has nothing to do with acting and everything to do with novel-making. Great acting talent does not necessarily translate to literary excellence. Apologies for sort of spoiling the premise right up front, but that’s the answer. ![]()
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