Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 7:36:00 GMT 1
This post is not a guide. It's more of a reflection. It doesn't teach anything, but maybe it leaves something behind. It's a series of considerations about what it means to write today, to publish a book, to want to do it, to continue wanting to write and everything else. Well, perhaps this is a small guide to "everything else", because writing is easy - even if it is difficult - writing is for everyone - even if it is not - writing is natural and spontaneous for many, but when it comes to " everything else”, then the trouble begins. This post is based on the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, but you already understood this. The demolition of expectations You can't make a living from writing , we talked about it a few weeks ago. At least, all things considered, that's my idea. If an author, today, in 2015, thinks of writing novels as a full-time job, he'd better change his mind. If he starts at 20 and is lucky, then he reaches 40 with at least 20 novels published and who knows how many editions and reprints.
But we're talking about luck, and he needs a lot of it. Maybe she makes it one in a million. Perhaps. This is the demolition of expectations , of the dreams of the writer who deludes himself into thinking he can be a writer Special Data like Stephen King and Joe Lansdale and others of the gang. This is a tunnel, from which you can enter and from which you can exit, you can be saved. The refuge of lost hopes Never give up writing and your dreams because of money. Money is worthless. Not in art, at least. Today we live in a technological world that allows us to transform publishing. Indeed, publishing has already begun to transform, because self-publishing was born. The do-it-yourself author, in the sense that he self-publishes and becomes his own entrepreneur . This is a hope, if not to get rich and make writing a full-time job, then at least to see yourself published . We therefore take refuge in innovation and evolution.
There is the awareness that perhaps not all is lost, that one's works, in one way or another, can circulate. Let them circulate, therefore, but with responsibility . Is publishing an unknown universe? Use a compass to orient yourself The era of the amateur in jeopardy is over. Today, the amateur in jeopardy is a ridiculous figure. He is no longer justified in any way. Today, if there is one thing that is not lacking – indeed, we have an overabundance of it – it is information . Today it is no longer possible to arrive at a publication, or rather to propose it, without being informed in detail, or nearly so, of all the mechanisms that lead to the creation of a book. The author of the third millennium is an author who reads . No, not just the books – God forbid if he didn't do that – but also the publishing houses' guidelines on sending manuscripts . Don't complain, then, if the publisher says to throw away most of the manuscripts that arrive.
But we're talking about luck, and he needs a lot of it. Maybe she makes it one in a million. Perhaps. This is the demolition of expectations , of the dreams of the writer who deludes himself into thinking he can be a writer Special Data like Stephen King and Joe Lansdale and others of the gang. This is a tunnel, from which you can enter and from which you can exit, you can be saved. The refuge of lost hopes Never give up writing and your dreams because of money. Money is worthless. Not in art, at least. Today we live in a technological world that allows us to transform publishing. Indeed, publishing has already begun to transform, because self-publishing was born. The do-it-yourself author, in the sense that he self-publishes and becomes his own entrepreneur . This is a hope, if not to get rich and make writing a full-time job, then at least to see yourself published . We therefore take refuge in innovation and evolution.
There is the awareness that perhaps not all is lost, that one's works, in one way or another, can circulate. Let them circulate, therefore, but with responsibility . Is publishing an unknown universe? Use a compass to orient yourself The era of the amateur in jeopardy is over. Today, the amateur in jeopardy is a ridiculous figure. He is no longer justified in any way. Today, if there is one thing that is not lacking – indeed, we have an overabundance of it – it is information . Today it is no longer possible to arrive at a publication, or rather to propose it, without being informed in detail, or nearly so, of all the mechanisms that lead to the creation of a book. The author of the third millennium is an author who reads . No, not just the books – God forbid if he didn't do that – but also the publishing houses' guidelines on sending manuscripts . Don't complain, then, if the publisher says to throw away most of the manuscripts that arrive.