>>536827006
Mr. Anon. It isn't a bad thing for a writer to not want to just write stories that will please their boss's ego. I think you might be reading into Mr. Ian Flynn's comment rather uncharitably. To me, it reads like Mr. Ian Flynn was writing stories that he knew would be very 'safe' and likely to be approved because he did not feel confident in his job security at the time. He did not know how to navigate his relationship with his superiors to tell the stories he was interested in telling yet. He was testing the waters, feeling them out.

I don't think a writer having a different idea for the kinds of stories they want to write than their employer is a bad thing. The issue is ultimately that if the employee doesn't want to write the kinds of stories that the employer's looking for, they should let them go or apply more pressure onto them to write stories they're interested in seeing.