How to be Creative in Writing: In a Low Quality Market

WRITING A NOVEL TAKES TIME, but writing a pleasurable novel to read also requires a person talented enough to know how to be creative in writing while continuing to maintain the other essential elements required for a book to be successful.  Writing a novel isn’t easy, but it’s just the beginning for an author wishing to be purchased and read by the masses.

How to Be Creative in Writing: In the Digital Publishing Age

Digital publishing has changed the publishing game forever.  Traditional publishers still hold a strong hand, but for authors who never felt they stood a chance at being read by others, Digital Publishing is their chance to change that.  Nevertheless, the digital publishing era hasn’t ushered in bright lights along the parting seas without letting a little darkness through.  Digital Publishing also cast giant shadows all along the industry, making the future of publishing more ambiguous than it’s ever been. 

Readers of the world welcome creative authors into the fold.  Some of these digital publishers are indeed, true masters at their art form and their digital novels prove it.  Their ability to string letters into words, words into sentences and sentences into brilliant dialogues that embed deep into your mind make me feel very fortunate to live in this age.  Due to the ability of these authors they are both revered not only by their patrons (consumers), but by their fellow authors (both traditional and digitally published) as well.  These authors are people who would be compelled to write every day despite any monetary value they may or may not receive.

How to Be Creative in Writing: With Rampant EHs'

Besides the prolific authors that emerged anew in this new age of digital online publishing, another class of writers emerged as well.  Less intellectually and compassionately gifted than their cousins, this new group of writer has arisen from obscurity to quickly piece together its product, in order to sell it to market.  These writers are a new breed, a breed colloquially referred to as EHs.’  EH is a pejorative acronym, and it stands for ‘Enterprising Hack.” ‘EH’ is also a double entendre as it refers to the invariant question tag ‘Eh’ that denotes a state of ignorance, or lack of understanding.  It also adopts its pronunciation from the later example. 

The EHs don’t care about the craft of writing, nor do they care for its art form or for the deep reflection it can bring.  Instead, an EH sits at a table and quickly writes up a thin story that they can wrap in a racy cover with the hope that consumers purchase the book without a great deal of concern for quality.

When the traditional publishers monopolized the industry, one positive that existed was that they served as a filter against EHs attempt to shovel crap into a wood stove.  Now, however, the dam the publishing companies broke is flooding the market, to the point of saturation, with the introduction of all the low quality books. 

What do you think? Is the influx of lackluster authors going to affect the balance in the eBook market? Or is this just an example of capitalism at work, a system that works and is self-correcting?'