When they do a bunch of sequels, same character over and over...that's when you know they have writer's block
more like writer's cock
>4 novels with the same character written over 3 decades>also wrote a dozen novels, few poetry collections, lots of short stories and essays during those 3 decadesClear case of writer's block.
>>25235768Yeah. Problem with Updike is that he couldn't STOP writing unless you shoved a fat asshole in his face.
>>25235773What will it take to stop you from posting?
>>25235781A Snickers bar.
>>25235766>what's updyke?what ever happened to butterfly and cumgenius?
>>25235768Maybe it applies to other authors more. Not just him.
>>25235766What's Updyke?
Is it...wrong to be nostalgic for that time when being a writer and writing a big novel series over entire decades was a thing that people cared about and which the public read and appreciated if they turned out well? Where it was still feasible to become a celebrity on account of nothing else but being a novelist or a poet or whatever? I wasn't even born when that was still a thing, but still...
>>25236059He was a writer
>>25235843>butterflyTurned off the trip.>cumgeniusPosts on /mu/.
Rabbit Redux follows Rabbit Run not Rabbit At Rest...
>>25235768Projection
>>25235766It seems to be a marketing strategy on Amazon. I see books that are part of like 60+ series installments, all vaguely about the same topic, following the same character (usually a woman doing some typically male investigation job). I can't imagine how terrible they must be.