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R.I.P - Tom Clancy
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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 13513399" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>I've got an entire shelf in my library devoted to Tom Clancy. May he rest in peace.</p><p></p><p>Clancy ended up being so disgusted with Hollywood he refused to do any more movies.</p><p></p><p>There's a story among writers that is said to be about Tom Clancy. It goes:</p><p></p><p>There is a writer who wrote dozens of huge best sellers. he attributed his success to the lucky lamp he had on his desk. Everything he wrote before he got the lamp was never picked up by a publisher. The first thing he wrote after he got the lamp became a huge hit. He noticed that the lightbulb never burned out. The lamp became his lucky charm.</p><p></p><p>Then he gets divorced, and it's an ugly divorce. His ex-wife tells him that the lamp wasn't lucky at all, she had been changing the light bulb every week for years because she knew he regarded it as being his source of good luck.</p><p></p><p>Can you see how viciously she stuck that knife in his back? Whether it was true or not, the source of his inspiration has been cast in doubt.</p><p></p><p>All of a sudden, he can't write. He tries, but the books are lame, stilted, card-board characters, plots that go nowhere, and they absolutely fail to sell. It takes him a few years, but eventually he gets over it and starts writing again.</p><p></p><p>This was always alluded to as being Tom Clancy. The lesson for new writers was: never place your confidence in your writing in a physical object. Stuff gets broken and then you're screwed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 13513399, member: 67454"] I've got an entire shelf in my library devoted to Tom Clancy. May he rest in peace. Clancy ended up being so disgusted with Hollywood he refused to do any more movies. There's a story among writers that is said to be about Tom Clancy. It goes: There is a writer who wrote dozens of huge best sellers. he attributed his success to the lucky lamp he had on his desk. Everything he wrote before he got the lamp was never picked up by a publisher. The first thing he wrote after he got the lamp became a huge hit. He noticed that the lightbulb never burned out. The lamp became his lucky charm. Then he gets divorced, and it's an ugly divorce. His ex-wife tells him that the lamp wasn't lucky at all, she had been changing the light bulb every week for years because she knew he regarded it as being his source of good luck. Can you see how viciously she stuck that knife in his back? Whether it was true or not, the source of his inspiration has been cast in doubt. All of a sudden, he can't write. He tries, but the books are lame, stilted, card-board characters, plots that go nowhere, and they absolutely fail to sell. It takes him a few years, but eventually he gets over it and starts writing again. This was always alluded to as being Tom Clancy. The lesson for new writers was: never place your confidence in your writing in a physical object. Stuff gets broken and then you're screwed. [/QUOTE]
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