Anyone writing good books?

[MelissaD]

The recent public television showing of The Complete Jane Austen has inspired me to dust off the the classics I read in college and read through them again. I was wondering if anyone is writing anything this good now? Do you think that any current books will be worth reading in 100 years?

Melissa

[angela in ohio]

Hmmm... I think if they are, we won't hear about it now, because to be popular I think things have to be pretty bad these days. :rolleyes: We may find out down the road that someone wrote something great, but it was never discovered, because the author wasn't a media darling or the grammar or vocabulary were too difficult to sell many copies.

[Amy from WT]

How about anyone writing any books at all? I think that would be interesting to me! Writing books that are going to be classics? Now that's going to be hard to tell! I am having so much fun writing "Writing Tales"...they definitely won't fall into the classics genre, lol, I just hope they are as helpful to a few families as they were to me.
I have a friend who has two books underway. One is fiction about the polio epidemic in the first half of the 20th century. That one sounds really interesting to me! And as she points out, very little, if anything, has been written in the fiction genre for children about that yet. I think it will do well!
She's also writing a book for homeschoolers about co-ops. I'm really encouraging her to finish that one. I think that one will be very popular once it's finished.
Hey - this is my first post on the new boards! Kind of fun....

[Happy]

Well....writing classics? Just think of the number of authors who were writing popular fiction *back in those days.* Did Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters realize they were writing classics. Did Hermann Melville or Charles Dickens?

An author writes...and writes to the best of his or her ability, but in order to survive in publishing, both the houses and the authors have to consider popular tastes. I've read catagory romance authors in the eighties who wrote powerful and evocative material.

I think we will see Ray Bradbury and Stephen King both considered 'classic' authors in a hundred years or so. I guess Bradbury already is with Fahrenheit 451. Will Danielle Steele, John Grisham, or Nora Roberts make the cut....who knows! :D

When I write, I hope to ENTERTAIN my reader. Maybe I'll have an impact on her life, but really I just want her to relax and get out of her own skin for a time. If I can do that, I'll consider myself a successful author.