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Has Online Publishing Turned More People into Writers?
Just knowing that we have the ability to speak our truth and publish it online freely is satisfying enough
If you ask people to name some of the most legendary Writers that they can think of throughout history, you might get a lot of similar responses— you might get some names like William Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou; well-known Writers who have published iconic pieces of writing that are now timeless.
Of course, back then, Writers like William Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou didn’t make a name for themselves by going viral on the internet. Instead, they published physical copies of their writing which were manually distributed to readers. How times have changed so drastically since then.
The hoops and hurdles that an individual has to go through to get their writing out into the world is much less stressful and much less difficult than it was before.
Now, any average joe who’s never wrote a day in their life might one day decide that they want to publish a one thousand-word essay on the changing culture of music. And that can easily be accomplished in just a click of a button — whether or not it will be seen or read by many people is wildly unpredictable, but at least…
