Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 10:10:12 GMT
publishing house sees other publishing houses as competitors, is it the same for writers? Does a writer also consider other authors his competitors? A publishing house is ultimately a company. A company that produces books. The other publishers are therefore competing to win readers and market shares. But a writer? A writer, in my opinion, has no competitors, even if they are authors who write in the same literary genre as him. A writer tells stories and each story is different from the other. A reader can also follow dozens of authors of the same narrative genre, because everyone writes in their own way, everyone has their own stories to tell.
The writer himself is a reader, who reads other authors and appreciates them. So I don't see any competition between writers. For me it's as if they were work colleagues, freelancers who sell their stories to clients. Even if it is not exactly correct to say that a publisher is a client of the writer. Let's say then that the writer is a freelancer who proposes his Special Data stories to the publisher. And the publisher can accept a story from one author as well as from another. It's like going into a television shop and finding many models offered by the same brand. The brand is the publisher, the televisions are the writers and the models are their stories. Each model has its own characteristics.
Each customer-reader has his own preferences. Writers are colleagues of work, of passion indeed. They are people who call readers through a book and tell them Β«Hey, I have a story to tell you. Do you want to read it?" A book, as I said a few posts ago, is an anomalous product. If it's true that you prefer to have a washing machine of one brand at home and not that of another, if you buy stereo X and not Y, how many writers crowd your bookcase instead? Writing colleagues, therefore, of a passion that is born within and one carries with them throughout one's life. And you, writer - aspiring, budding, emerging or professional - do you recognize yourself in this picture? Do you see other writers as your colleagues or as competitors.
The writer himself is a reader, who reads other authors and appreciates them. So I don't see any competition between writers. For me it's as if they were work colleagues, freelancers who sell their stories to clients. Even if it is not exactly correct to say that a publisher is a client of the writer. Let's say then that the writer is a freelancer who proposes his Special Data stories to the publisher. And the publisher can accept a story from one author as well as from another. It's like going into a television shop and finding many models offered by the same brand. The brand is the publisher, the televisions are the writers and the models are their stories. Each model has its own characteristics.
Each customer-reader has his own preferences. Writers are colleagues of work, of passion indeed. They are people who call readers through a book and tell them Β«Hey, I have a story to tell you. Do you want to read it?" A book, as I said a few posts ago, is an anomalous product. If it's true that you prefer to have a washing machine of one brand at home and not that of another, if you buy stereo X and not Y, how many writers crowd your bookcase instead? Writing colleagues, therefore, of a passion that is born within and one carries with them throughout one's life. And you, writer - aspiring, budding, emerging or professional - do you recognize yourself in this picture? Do you see other writers as your colleagues or as competitors.