Future Now

Writing Has Changed

It’s not just that the market for writing has changed, but the way people read, write, and share has changed.

I had always a dream of writing a book. This goes back to 6th grade minimum. I also heard my grandmother lamenting her troubles and saying she ought to write a book. I heard her lamentations so much that I nearly wrote it for her just so she’d let it go. I hear “I should write a book” quite a bit from folks in counseling world. Some of that is because our troubles feel so personable that we have this illusion we’re unique. That doesn’t invalidate the survivor stories we carry, as anyone who has overcome adversity is well deserving of that award. Writing that book on ourselves, as experts in ourselves, feels like it should be a natural home run. It’s just, very few people will likely read a survivor story, because we’re all pretty much surviving, and so, even if you wrote it, would it sell? And if didn’t, would it bother you?

Anna David is a publisher and author who has been trying to blow up the myth of the Big Easy. “Publishing is more broken than Hollywood.”

99% Of Books Won’t Make Their Money Back, linked below is worth the view. Most authors never earn out. Many who write books for living don’t earn a living wage.