The Truth About Being A Writer

As technology continues evolving, entertainment changes along with it.

Before web players such as Spotify became the current music device, vinyl ruled the earth for a very long time then comes compact cassettes later evolved into CDs and DVDs to walkman to MP3s and MP4s.

Entertainment evolution also made us continue to strain away from reading. Before, people read books to entertain themselves. Now, it is currently being replaced by watching/streaming. People are more likely to watch things than to read nowadays. To prove that theory, try answering this question: Out of your ten closest friends, including yourself, how many read books daily?

There is a very high probability that only two of those ten people at best have read books. It would be a wonder if most of them are which is something I highly doubt though. Today, we mostly read using a screen than using a book. Students even rather take a picture of a page and then read it from their phone than reading it from the book itself.

In my article entitled “Skill work”, I’ve mentioned that work salary is determined by three things: Demand, Entertainment, and Difficulty. In order for a certain job to have a high-paying salary, it needs at least two out of those three. In today’s modern world, writers are not globally in demand, writing is not valued as entertaining, but the work is difficult.

Writing has become one of the dying professions in the modern world. Almost nobody wanted to be a writer now since the entertainment market had already shifted to video content creators. To all aspiring writers out there, don’t lose hope. Let’s make writing great again, one word at a time.