Post by account_disabled on Dec 6, 2023 21:50:01 GMT -8
Writing a novel for many writers is the only activity that concerns them. The creative effort that is reduced to the pure action of writing, of inventing the story. For some, not for all, this creativity goes all the way to editing, when they return to working on their work with the editor's advice. And the work is done. The wait begins for the publication, for the sales results, for the first reactions to reading the novel. The writer's creativity suffers a sudden, immediate halt, a halt caused by an obsolete and wrong attitude.
Pretentious, perhaps, selfish at times. The romantic vision of writing How many times have I spoken badly of the writer who sits in front of his paper writing, feeling like an Edgar Allan Poe of the past or a new Stephen King of the modern ones? This writer ignores that Poe is dead and that King has no doubles. There is no modernity in the Phone Number Data romanticism of writing. It's an old thing that turns off the writer. CLICK TO TWEET The 19th century writer is dead Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Dickens, Verga, Dumas and many others no longer exist. They are classics of the 19th century, of a 19th century that gave so much to world literature, but which ended on 31 December 1900. The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 and the 21st on 1 January 2001.
Long live the writer of the 21st century Attitudes foreign to the digital age and the current century are harmful. Thesis 27 of the Editorial Innovation Manifesto . He was referring to publishing companies, to publishing houses, but it is also a thought aimed at all those writers who are still tied to a traditionalist and outdated approach towards publishing, towards the publication of their work. Writers who still wallow in the mistaken belief that their novel is a mere fruit of art and not a vulgar commercial product. Don't be scandalized: here vulgar is in the etymological meaning of the term, from the Latin vulgus , of the multitude, a commercial product for the people, for the public. I'm sorry, but this is not the 21st century. This is not living in the age of the Internet, of technology, of the extreme simplification of communication
Pretentious, perhaps, selfish at times. The romantic vision of writing How many times have I spoken badly of the writer who sits in front of his paper writing, feeling like an Edgar Allan Poe of the past or a new Stephen King of the modern ones? This writer ignores that Poe is dead and that King has no doubles. There is no modernity in the Phone Number Data romanticism of writing. It's an old thing that turns off the writer. CLICK TO TWEET The 19th century writer is dead Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Dickens, Verga, Dumas and many others no longer exist. They are classics of the 19th century, of a 19th century that gave so much to world literature, but which ended on 31 December 1900. The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 and the 21st on 1 January 2001.
Long live the writer of the 21st century Attitudes foreign to the digital age and the current century are harmful. Thesis 27 of the Editorial Innovation Manifesto . He was referring to publishing companies, to publishing houses, but it is also a thought aimed at all those writers who are still tied to a traditionalist and outdated approach towards publishing, towards the publication of their work. Writers who still wallow in the mistaken belief that their novel is a mere fruit of art and not a vulgar commercial product. Don't be scandalized: here vulgar is in the etymological meaning of the term, from the Latin vulgus , of the multitude, a commercial product for the people, for the public. I'm sorry, but this is not the 21st century. This is not living in the age of the Internet, of technology, of the extreme simplification of communication