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Oh, and next time? Seriously tempted to answer Wiccan Inspirational Romance.

You are a bad woman. :)

No one writes everything.

What about Silverberg?!!

As an example, you can't expect me (as a Pagan) to write Christian Inspirational Romance.

Why not, other than personal reservations? That is, lots of Jews and other non-Christians have written Christian Inspirational books... and note the essentially apology Ellen Kushner included upfront in her novel Thomas the Rhymer, which contains a number of extremely Christian themes and values, to the massacres Jews of York. My point is that lots of people do writing, especially commercial writing, for markets which they are emphatically not the readership for. I mentioned Silverberg, who jumped up from the audience at a Sercon years ago when a program participant on a panel was deprecating "hack writers," and exclaimed antagonistically, "I am a hack!" He wrote for pay, and whatever was a reasonable rate and conditions (that includes e.g. actually paying the promised payment to the writer, rather than week after week going by and no check) paying market, he was willing to write for.

I can expect that you're unlikely to write Christian Inspirational writing, but there are, again, non-Christians who do write in that area, just as there are Christians who specialize in Judaica, or in pagan Classical religious studies, or Jews who specialize in Christian studies, etc.

Because no one cares about everything (or cares about every position on everything). I'm sure there were jobs even Silverberg might not have taken.

I wouldn't write Christian Inspirational Romance because I don't care enough to do a good job.

I'm not Christian, but I think it would be an interesting challenge to attempt Christian fiction.

Maybe you should make a list of all the things you don't write, and then if someone claims to write "everything", ask them if they write all the things on the list.

For example, how many of the following do you write?

Parodies of telephone directories.

Scriptures for religions that haven't been invented or discovered or revealed (etc.) yet.

Inspirational romances for followers of religions that haven't been invented or discovered or revealed (etc.) yet.

Parodies of Presidential executive orders.

Technical specifications for alien spacecraft (flying saucers, etc.).

Parodies of computer programs (in real programming languages so they can be compiled even if they don't do anything useful when you run them).

Songs to be sung to your cats.

Anything in languages you don't know.

Manifestos for movements that haven't started yet.

Suicide notes for lemmings.

Parodies of biographies of your friends.

Biographies of parodies of your friends.

Parodies of biographies of parodies of your friends.

Inspirational romances for robots.

Technical papers in fields you're unfamiliar with.

What you would have done differently had you been O. J. Simpson.

What you would have done differently had you been Hitler.

What you would have done differently had you been Jesus.

Cookbooks for Martians.

... and so on.

Exactly. In fact, I'll take your list with me.

"Suicide notes for lemmings."

LOL! I nearly fell off my seat laughing at that one. Idea Fairy rocks! ^_^

What about:

Songs composed while stranded on Elephant Island.

Sightseeing at the Marianas Trench.

I'm stealing Sightseeing at the Marianas Trench.