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mike_8087
I plan to write a book on sports. Will these athletes expect payment for interviews?
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No. Generally, you shouldn't pay people who you interview. If you are paying them, and the public finds out, they will no longer be a credible source. If you are giving them money, they could theoretically be coerced into saying whatever would best suit YOUR needs rather than telling the truth about the subject at hand.
No. Generally, you shouldn't pay people who you interview. If you are paying them, and the public finds out, they will no longer be a credible source. If you are giving them money, they could theoretically be coerced into saying whatever would best suit YOUR needs rather than telling the truth about the subject at hand.
Is it a good idea to write a book about a character who has celebrity status?
Kristen
I heard people don't like books like that is it true? Because in a book I'm writing, one of the main characters is dating a guy who is a pro athlete she met since she's a cheerleader for the football team he plays for, but that's not all the book is about it's just a subplot of it and she's just one of the main characters. But if people don't like that kind of thing I was just going to nix it and make the guy something else.
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It doesn't matter one way or the other if the book is well-written.
One of Anne Rice's vampire was a certified rock star. No big deal. Dr. Who routinely visits Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, and other famous people. So what.
The main reason some people might get turned off by it is that it can make the story sound too fantastic, too much like wish-fulfillment for the author. Everyone is beautiful, and smart, and rich, and successful, and famous, blah blah blah. Oh, she's a beautiful, independent, smart crime-fighting, astronaut-in-training, cancer-curing cheerleader AND she's dating a rich, successful super-hunk from a pro-team, too? It's trite, cliche, over-simple, and played-out. Characters who "have it all" are boring.
Also, it depends on the type of celebrity and I think pro-football is harder to get away with than other forms of celebrities. You can make up imaginary actors in imaginary movies, imaginary authors, imaginary singers and musicians, etc. But with something like pro-football it isn't a wide open field that just anyone can get into. There are ONLY so many pro-teams for example and you can't just go make up a new one without it all sounding incredibly fake. but once you put an imaginary person on a real sports team, how do you justify it and make it seem real? It makes your job a little harder. Not impossible, but harder.
But, if it is realistic and well-written, the imagined celebrity status of a character, a side-character at that (though being a cheerleader for a professional football team is pretty celebrity itself), doesn't matter at all.
It doesn't matter one way or the other if the book is well-written.
One of Anne Rice's vampire was a certified rock star. No big deal. Dr. Who routinely visits Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, and other famous people. So what.
The main reason some people might get turned off by it is that it can make the story sound too fantastic, too much like wish-fulfillment for the author. Everyone is beautiful, and smart, and rich, and successful, and famous, blah blah blah. Oh, she's a beautiful, independent, smart crime-fighting, astronaut-in-training, cancer-curing cheerleader AND she's dating a rich, successful super-hunk from a pro-team, too? It's trite, cliche, over-simple, and played-out. Characters who "have it all" are boring.
Also, it depends on the type of celebrity and I think pro-football is harder to get away with than other forms of celebrities. You can make up imaginary actors in imaginary movies, imaginary authors, imaginary singers and musicians, etc. But with something like pro-football it isn't a wide open field that just anyone can get into. There are ONLY so many pro-teams for example and you can't just go make up a new one without it all sounding incredibly fake. but once you put an imaginary person on a real sports team, how do you justify it and make it seem real? It makes your job a little harder. Not impossible, but harder.
But, if it is realistic and well-written, the imagined celebrity status of a character, a side-character at that (though being a cheerleader for a professional football team is pretty celebrity itself), doesn't matter at all.
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