What It Takes To Be A Serious Writer
Want to be a serious writer in today’s rapidly changing world? Not as easy as you think, but immensely rewarding as well in ways you can’t imagine…here’s Jack Eason on what it takes to get serious…thank you Story Reading Ape!
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
In the good old bad old days, wrongly or rightly, writers were shielded by their agents and publishers from their reading public to maintain an air of mystery, and to shield them from the more repugnant elements of society, among other things. These days since the internet became reality, it has become a necessary tool for all writers to be able to let their readers get to know them.
Even so, as a writer you need to be cautious. There are a few drawbacks. The spread of internet trolls, armchair critics and pedants springs to mind. But, always providing the writer doesn’t engage with them, they remain where they belong, lurking in the darkest recesses of the internet fora. With the way the review system operates on a lot of book sites these days, they do their darnedest to put people off buying books written by every writer they hate…
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