One of the urgent questions raised by each, write, sooner or later finds is: For whom do I write?
-commercial writers writing course for a paying audience - and are therefore his wishes and the market situation requires.
Freelance writers enjoy the freedom to write, to what they want - without it can surely expect that they will be able to make a living this way.
The problems of both forms Gabriele Bärtels has in TIME (45/2007) states: letter makes poor .
from bourgeois view of the security of one's existence as a priority Target represents the Schriftstellertum puts priority in the background: write only when the livelihood is assured - or if the securities offered Schriftstellertum.
But besides all this bourgeois another reason, not its existence in writing - be it literary or journalistic manner - based on: -thinking independence. Once Pegasus is panned to the plow, he loses his power to fly.
writing first for themselves - for the acquisition and interpretation of the world, including his own then for friends. Then for all others. One way to spiritual independence.
And if I ever no one will read - that is, for me was to have entertained so many idle hours with such useful and pleasant observations were lost time for me? Since I formed this portrait for me, I had to bring out the essential features of me, so they often take the right attitude, that the model itself has gained a definite shape only about himself, as it has been designed by the first. As I painted for me, I put more vivid colors freely in me than they originally were. I made my book any more than it made me [...]
Michel de Montaigne, Essais ,
ed. Hans stiletto, "If one side of lying accused ", p. 330
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