Perhaps, but I think what might happen is that certain ageist views might also emerge. After all, why do quite a few readers assume that an older author has "lost it" and that his latter works are just not as good? If one reads an experienced writer's later books with that attitude, it might be more the the reader than the author at fault there.
Well, I already noted my thoughts on the issue in my first reply - there's definitely some unfair bias at work, though I think it has more to do with nostalgia and with the older books having gained classic status (actual classic, or merely classic within the genre) than with ageism.
I would say that among other grievous faults of that wannabe polemicist, ageism certainly is up there. But yes, for others, it's an odd nostalgia factor that plays a major role in such negative reactions toward latter work that doesn't follow the earlier works' narrative paths.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Do authors age like fine wine or like that rat that died behind the fridge three days ago?
- 28/01/2012 08:11:28 PM
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That article got off on the wrong foot and never really managed to get it back.
- 28/01/2012 11:09:08 PM
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Yes, and I could have listed quite a few "genre" writers as well for counter-evidence
- 29/01/2012 01:43:28 AM
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Indeed.
- 29/01/2012 11:35:09 AM
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Too many targets to risk losing focus on any single one of them 
- 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
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- 29/01/2012 01:38:16 PM
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Re: Too many targets to risk losing focus on any single one of them
- 29/01/2012 01:46:37 PM
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- 29/01/2012 01:46:37 PM
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But in that particular piece?
- 29/01/2012 01:50:24 PM
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Hm, that's interesting. I've been thinking about this off and on for a while now.
- 29/01/2012 08:33:36 PM
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