> But novelists don't have deadlines and when the novel is done
I hate to "well actually" you :) , but a great number of authors have contracts that demand one or two novels a year over a fixed period of time. I know Iain Banks did with his publisher, he mentioned it at a one of his readings of a new but yet unpublished novel I was lucky to attend back in 2007'ish.
> they usually don't take reader requests to change this or that part of the story.
Even well known authors are reigned in by their editors and proof readers, and sometimes things have to be changed.
I hate to "well actually" you :) , but a great number of authors have contracts that demand one or two novels a year over a fixed period of time. I know Iain Banks did with his publisher, he mentioned it at a one of his readings of a new but yet unpublished novel I was lucky to attend back in 2007'ish.
> they usually don't take reader requests to change this or that part of the story.
Even well known authors are reigned in by their editors and proof readers, and sometimes things have to be changed.