[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you have any experience with the book publishing industry, you know that whether or not your original work gets published only marginally depends on how good your writing and your ideas are. It depends far more on the current market, on what editors think "sells" well, on what the publishing house thinks "fits" into their general programme. Lots of shit gets published. Lots of good books do not get published. Lots of good manuscript need to get rewritten a lot to fit the editors' demands, and only then they get published. I'm saying this as someone who spent years working in that industry and seeing what criteria are used to determine which manuscripts get published.

Frankly? I don't want that. I want to write the stories I want to write. I don't want to have to worry about what sells well. I don't want to have to worry about what my editor wants. I don't want to be told to rewrite my characters because the way I've written them "doesn't sell", because my characters shouldn't be gay, because my story needs more magic or less magic, because I should write a love story between the main male and female characters, because my story should have a happy ending etc.

If I write fanfiction, I get feedback from interested people on the internet without having to jump through the hundreds and hundreds of loops of getting published - and probably only getting a version of my book published that is not the book I would have written if it wasn't for the editors' demands. So what if nobody pays me? At least writing is still a hobby I whole-heartedly enjoy, rather than a tedious job that forces me to think about market expectations or what I should do to make sure my next book gets published as well.