In this post, I’m going to break away from writing to talk about successful artists and sellouts.
You work hard. You write stories (or make games, or direct films, etc.), and one day someone recognizes you. They compliment you, they tell you how much they love your work. They tell you it’s changed their life.
Feels good, doesn’t it?
But your story doesn’t stop there. People start to recognize you everywhere you go. Your work has hooked into something fundamental, something mysteriously powerful, and the mainstream has carried it far out of your control. People are obsessed with your work, hundreds, millions.
Your work doesn’t belong to you anymore. What would you do?
P. S. Hoffman 