![]() ![]() Gilbert. And, in the sixth Oz book in 1910, L. writing political monographs and historical fiction). Sir Arthur Sullivan, after watching a stroke end the career of his friend and colleague, Frederic Clay, was consumed for a time with concern over his legacy and temporarily stopped writing comic operas with William S. ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famously tried to kill his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, in order to make more time for what he saw as his more important work (e.g. Frank Baum’s stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, I am struck by how many of my favorite authors desired a different sort of career than the one in which they found most success. In my own musings at the end of this month dedicated to L. ![]() Hopefully this will be the year for some of them. The end of the year frequently inspires an introspective comparison of one’s ambitions against one’s accomplishments and an increased (if temporary) resolve to close the distance between the two. I suspect among the crowd celebrating in Times Square this Saturday night, there will be at least a few web designers who wish they were actors, bloggers who wish they were novelists, and bankers who wish they were rock stars. ![]()
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