The Monopoly in Publishing World & Your Middle Class Storyteller
A boy who is born in a middle class family dreams of writing a book. He writes one. He has a story in mind. He may or may not be a 12 or a 30 year old man.
You might ask me why am I talking about people who dream and who can't write but want to tell stories/a story?
I have read many up and coming authors, many times self published, many times lacking the will to redraft for the hundredth time like Jhumpa Lahiri or write in impeccable form like Sinha or Woolf. Their agenda triumphs over their ability. They haven't maybe studied in a convent school and they never had the teachers you and I had/have. They don't know what is a MFA. They don't know if creative writing is a vocation which requires lots of money, support and they don't have either so I don't blame these story tellers for their poor edits, their spelling mistakes or poor construction and grammar. Be kind when you spot a 'you're' instead of 'you are'.
Imagine yourself in this position where English isn't your first language but you are vetted as if it is the only language worth anything. Or when your complicities as a child, poverty and lack of guidance is a joke.
Don't be hard on the self published or people who can't afford hard covers and glossy prints with illustrated cover designs chosen by the magic 5 or the Daddies of publishing world.
Remember the monopoly in publishing is unlike any monopoly.
Don't be rude and try understanding where some people come from. They might not write with perfect syntaxes or mouth words in its entirety but how they try, to overcome these barriers, in whatever limited capacity they can is something to wonder. Look at how they challenge colonialism and monopoly.
These two Articles in the Google Search tel us something. They are old Articles, still relevant. They are still here to be read in 2021 as if it were 2012 and 2019. Monopoly is bigger. It’s still there. It will always be it seems like.
Look at how Media makes you believe that you are better than anyone else. And how your grammar is a result of privilege and opportunities while some of us, we don’t have any of these.
