Quote: sootyj @ August 15 2008, 10:30 AM BSTNo one can do that. It's more of a marathon then a sprint, constantly writing/improving. And superb is an opinion, you can only control the quality not how much it is appreciated.
But a boy band with the potential of genius. In the same way on this site maybe the next Croft and Perry, or Chris Morris.
Just currently writing a jobbing writer wriing nob gags.
Well we know after the event they had the poential of 'genius' - not sure about that - timing was everything, but it was only when they started writing their own stuff that the potential 'genus' you make mention of was made manifest. So they can kick themselves for not signing them up, but on the basis of what they were presented with at the time I don't think they can criticise their own professional sensibilities - whereas those who turned down the Philosophers Stone can. There is no logical reason why it became the enormous success that it did, except of course the Americans turning it into a craze. But it was still a rattling good tale and to be fair, a funny first novel. Not particularly original, not a brilliant example of the genre (see Earthsea trilogy), but a fun story well told with lots of imagination. I think JK was a victim unfortunately of her own success. I wish I had her bad luck!