In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that _ all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, this may mean you__l never be published but that__ a risk we all take every single time we set hands to keyboard or pen to paper. For me, if I can sit back at the end of a project and say, __es, I stayed honest, I said what I wanted to say, and I made it sing to the best of my ability_, then I__ happy enough. Of course, if anyone wants to buy the damned thing off me when I__ done, that__ jam I won__ refuse.
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Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that _ all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, this may mean you__l never be published but that__ a risk we all take every single time we set hands to keyboard or pen to paper. For me, if I can sit back at the end of a project and say, __es, I stayed honest, I said what I wanted to say, and I made it sing to the best of my ability_, then I__ happy enough. Of course, if anyone wants to buy the damned thing off me when I__ done, that__ jam I won__ refuse.
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