Working Novelist

The fantasy is to bang out a few ten thousands of words during a stormy season of creation and then after that to emerge from the ecstasy with a story all shining in gold. And this should happen very fast: thirty days for a short masterpiece; a few years for a three part, multi-generational, magnificent saga. That is how geniuses do it, or so they say. And geniuses never lie do they?
Of course we take the word "novel" generally speaking to mean something new, untried, unique. Hardly the case with much of what are today called novels. Market considerations force editors to look for writing that seems similar to whatever worked last time. What made money? Indeed, they are rather uncomfortable with what is truly novel. Why so? One would think they would pant for the truly daring, unique and untried--the novel. It is not so.
Editors are business people employed by business people who keep a steady eye on cash flow. Most people need to eat. Rent needs to be paid. All of this does not favor the writer who considers himself a serious novelist. "Novel" novels are not welcome. Next time I will talk about my own work.

I am a new writer in your neighborhood with two heroic novels I have had the extraordinary pleasure of creating and I would like to share with you the joys of writing and the terror of the dark pit of marketing. I had an agent for one year but only unofficially as he never signed me. I'll tell you much more later.