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Journalism
5 Reasons You Should Write
How to defy the odds and achieve success in the digital age
Thank goodness for the digital overthrow of a once archaic industry. The internet and social media disrupted the publishing world. And in doing so, busted open the gates for many promising writers.
Today there is substantially more hope your words will find their people.
It wasn’t always this way.
The publishing industry has traditionally been a very elusive and exclusive world. A Manhattan fortress guarded primarily by Ivy League editors. A place where it was tough to get your work reviewed let alone in print.
Rejection is standard in this world. What you might call a ‘write’ of passage. But it was made worse by the literary snobbery. Only an elite few could enter.
But now passionate voices have a chance to be read by many rather than dismissed by one.
Creative storytellers have come into their own era. An empowered one. With past gatekeepers limiting so much talent, this is long overdue.
But it is still an industry that demands that odds be defied. Talented writers have to embrace more than the mechanics of the craft.
