Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.