Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 1:27:16 GMT -5
Asking ourselves whether or not we are truly writers is a peregrine question, the answer to which does not change our condition, our future in the slightest, nor does it help us in any way to overcome the difficulties of writing and get to a publication. To be writers we must sell our stories : get them to be read by an audience. But to get to this we must start from the end, not from inspiration nor from the lineup nor from a shred of plot. For once we have to start from the end: from publication, therefore. Or, rather, we need to understand what it means to publish a book and to do so we need to change our approach to publishing . Call it what you like: traditional publishing or self-publishing. It is always publishing, it is always a publishing market. Writing a story is not enough The more I read, the more I see what the great authors publish, the well-known authors, all those who find their works well aligned on the shelves and the more I understand that writing is not enough, that writing is only the first part of the work that a writer must take on .
There are still those who see writing as an art as an end in itself. It's like drawing: there are those who love to draw on their own, to give their drawings to friends or to keep them hanging at home somewhere. But if he decides to sell those drawings, if he decides to put his art at the service of others, then the matter changes, then he must totally rethink his art, because from that moment it is no longer Special Data just his, but it is an art shared with the others . And others have needs. They have requests. With writing, music does not change: there are those who decide to write for themselves, because ultimately writing is also therapeutic. But if we decide to write to sell our stories, then we must rethink this art of ours, understand first of all whether this art has reached a sufficiently good level to be put at the service of others, of readers. This is interpreted incorrectly by many: that is, transforming an art such as writing into something commercial. Becoming servile. Bowing to the needs of the market and other such nonsense.
It is too difficult for these people to understand the meaning of that number printed on the back cover or on a flap: what is technically called "price". That is, the amount a reader has to pay to read that story. There is little to be poets and alternative and romantic: the story must be sold, it must therefore be put in a position to be sold. This is not a world for poets, perhaps it never has been. The alternatives don't survive, because they don't have an audience or that audience is too small to justify their existence. Romance is fine if it stays in the soul, but it doesn't sell, it doesn't gain readers. To write a story you have to be a poet and an artist, but to sell it you have to be an entrepreneur. The sooner you accept this absolute truth, the sooner you can publish it. This is not a subjective thought, but an objective consideration. And entrepreneurship, as we know, begins well before the product is put on sale. Start with the project. Draw out the most obvious conclusions.
There are still those who see writing as an art as an end in itself. It's like drawing: there are those who love to draw on their own, to give their drawings to friends or to keep them hanging at home somewhere. But if he decides to sell those drawings, if he decides to put his art at the service of others, then the matter changes, then he must totally rethink his art, because from that moment it is no longer Special Data just his, but it is an art shared with the others . And others have needs. They have requests. With writing, music does not change: there are those who decide to write for themselves, because ultimately writing is also therapeutic. But if we decide to write to sell our stories, then we must rethink this art of ours, understand first of all whether this art has reached a sufficiently good level to be put at the service of others, of readers. This is interpreted incorrectly by many: that is, transforming an art such as writing into something commercial. Becoming servile. Bowing to the needs of the market and other such nonsense.
It is too difficult for these people to understand the meaning of that number printed on the back cover or on a flap: what is technically called "price". That is, the amount a reader has to pay to read that story. There is little to be poets and alternative and romantic: the story must be sold, it must therefore be put in a position to be sold. This is not a world for poets, perhaps it never has been. The alternatives don't survive, because they don't have an audience or that audience is too small to justify their existence. Romance is fine if it stays in the soul, but it doesn't sell, it doesn't gain readers. To write a story you have to be a poet and an artist, but to sell it you have to be an entrepreneur. The sooner you accept this absolute truth, the sooner you can publish it. This is not a subjective thought, but an objective consideration. And entrepreneurship, as we know, begins well before the product is put on sale. Start with the project. Draw out the most obvious conclusions.
