THAT AUTHORS SHARE

Unique Characteristics

that Authors Share

By Taylor Basnight

When it comes to today’s technology landscape, what characteristics define a writer? Before the advent of mass production and computerization, authors simply wrote and waited for their thoughts to be printed on paper and bound into a book. As far as we were concerned, an author was someone whose name appeared on the spine of a book that could be removed from a shelf and read. The publication of a physical book was essential to the development of the author’s craft. Books didn’t just appear; they were created by authors.

The modern author’s life is rarely as idyllic as the image of a reclusive individual working on a typewriter in a dark attic. Without the need for physical paper, the act of writing may be entirely digitalized, with the resulting text appearing on the reader’s screen. Have traditional books lost their special value in the age of e-Books and other media formats? Can a writer who hasn’t published a book become an author? Can everybody who publishes an e-book be called an author? To what extent may one benefit from self-publishing? In the modern era, anyone can start their own publishing house. In today’s modern era, all it takes to reach millions of Kindle readers is a few hundred words compiled into an eBook and distributed through Amazon. Is that enough to label us as writers, though? There’s just a bad “vibe” about it. Our guts tell us it’s not the case. In that case, what makes a writer special?

Authors can take on several identities. They are more likely to be readers than watchers. They’ll probably end up being authors. Very few writers actually begin penning works before they can read. Nonetheless, you can find them. A person from a culture with a long history of orally

transmitted knowledge could be able to recount a book’s events from memory alone, even if they’ve never set eyes on a book. Therefore, authors need not read, need not write, and publishing is not a prerequisite. Then what are our final thoughts on writers?

Most writers have diverse backgrounds, including reading, writing, researching, editing, and publishing. As their audiences grow from the publication of their works, they may branch out into related fields like advertising. Yes, authors of today are many things, but what, when pressed for a definition, can you say about them?

It’s safe to say that an author and their work are unique and exclusive. That’s something we’re aware of. In the end, though, the processes themselves are less important than the status they have been given by others.

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