And when asked what company he worked for, Campbell would say only Star Distributors, which distributes Corporate Design's books. But Campbell did work at Corporate Design. The director describes Corporate Design as a sort of literary sweatshop. Although it's formula writing, it can help your fiction if you use it to toy with dialogue and style. But they don't expect to w rite well.
Good writing gets in the way.
You can't waste time laboring over images or even making plots work. This is functional writing, and your reader has but one focus. Now a writer can hardly live off novels published with Random House. We were a group of expatriates who were all writing for Maurice Girodius and The Olympia Press. At that point, it was a new genre, very avant-garde.