(You should read the post previous to this to know what the rant is all about.)

I've been accused -- in fact, I've been accused recently and by someone who should know better -- of writing to market.  This is not true, though it might not be immediately obvious.  What I choose to write -- what I have to say in each short story or novel -- I want to write.  Often desperately enough to do it -- often -- for the drawer.   And, hell, if I wrote to market, I'd write a lot more thrillers, romances and women in peril.

With one exception -- my one write for hire book -- I write a story when it chases me down, pins me to the desk and makes me type.  I write it because I must.