boss i hear that people who think
don marquis invented me are telling
you that you should give me up and invent
your own characters or you ll never
amount to anything needless to say i
disagree
i have been keeping an eye on the
film industry for sixty years people
like speilberg and lucas got where
they are by inventing over and over
again the same characters as did
homer and the grimm boys
the hot ticket in science fiction
publishing these days is the shared
universe this is how it works a big
name author creates a new world or
tosses away one he s done milking
and everyone else starts writing
in it do you remember when this new
trend took off question mark i do
exclamation point it was at about
the same time that the entire
publishing industry learned that a
paperback novel with leonard
nimoy s pointed ears on the cover
will sell a jillion copies
these so called friends of yours
remind me of something pete
the parrot said of the late nights
at the mermaid tavern marlowe and
johnson were always telling bill
shakespeare that his plays would
never amount to anything unless he
gave up the mythology and the
history and invented his own plots
and characters
besides boss i ve seen stuff
with characters you invented
stick with what works is what i say
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