When sometimes it's better to concentrate here on my blogs at Blogger and just close my account at Facebook. The problem is my friends and relatives are on Facebook. Simply don't like sharing my blogs with them to read. It's a different scenario and obstacle to tackle if you share your writings with your friends and let them scrutinize your worth. It's not that I don't trust their judgment but you know... it's better to have fair judgment and criticisms from another fellow writers or bloggers. It's how things are and don't ask that question again.
When you read the novels of famous novelist Wilbur Smith, on every books he had written there are quotes unquotes written comments or reviews from his fellow novelists such as Stephen King (author of many thrillers: Carrie, The Shining, IT, Chucky, etc.) and worthy reviews from many editors from world's leading newspapers: Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times, The Times, The Telegraph, etcheterra.
Hmm, I wonder why Lee Israel didn't make a review, I just heard she criticized Tom Clancy. Oh my!
So did you ever watch the movie of Melissa McCarthy 's "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" (Yeah, can you forgive her?) Melissa McCarthy in her outstanding portrayal of an aging publishing company's writer who seemed to be out of luck and dowdy when it comes to her boring career as a celebrity biographer (she was once the bestselling celebrity biographer in the 1970's and 80's) . She was once famous but had lose her streak in the uncertainty of such life as a writer and had committed a crime of forging (selling fake letters from famous writers and famous celebrities whom I don't even recognized names). It was a true story drama. I can't believe that Melissa will accept this role after being THE SPY in the same movie title with actor, action star Jason Statham. She was that good of a great comedianne in the TV sitcom Mike & Molly, sad to say it was not shown anymore on the same time slot and channel we used to watch her. What happened? She should just work for SLN. However, let me tell you that Melissa is very talented and hope she will accept better script that resonates with her skills and charm. She was an alcoholic, her cat was so sick, and she needs to survive not to be evicted from her old rotten, stinky apartment > pertaining to Lee Israel so that's probably the reason why Lee Israel committed such crime and maybe the life of writers are something we all should know as "struggling" just like what happened to those struggling painters such as Vincent Van Gogh and other artists who committed suicides in the past.
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J.K. Rowling was a struggling writer and a welfare recipient before she became famous writer for HARRY POTTER.
That's direct opposite of what happened to Lee Israel.
While Tom Clancy? I think he was a CIA. ?
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Artists are not paid the right amount worthy of their skills. Maybe some of them are not really paid. Haggling could be part of the deal as in bargaining table that the writers and painters or any talented artist never get the fair chance. Look at the artist/singer Taylor Swift who we thought had rights to all her songs but NO. Artists have publicist/manager and whoever doing the managing of the person's career get all the contract written in black and white. Maybe the artist gets only percentage or royalty of what was earned. Wow! Whatever! That was just in the news recently and we don't know if its true or not. Maybe soon there will be a true life story about the very talented musician/songwriter/singer Taylor Swift. Yeah baby, you have to calm down.
