Why fiction writers aren't "entertainers for hire"

Blazing Reader,

Last week I quoted Alan Moore, describing how writing the script for a comic book often leaves him "a blubbering mess."

So why does he put himself through such humiliating hardship?

I'll let the British comic book legend tell you himself. Here's a one-minute video in which Moore explains why fiction writers aren't "entertainers for hire" but rather carry an age-old tradition of "modifying the reality and consciousness of the entire species."

Check out the clip and his "Lord of the Rings" hairdo:

Cool socks! Mr. Moore.

—John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.