/lit/ - Literature

>In reality most people just go on with their daily lives and follow liberal values of freedom and choice. I'm starting to agree with Fukuyama that there's no serious reason to believe that we will ever evolve past those values and our current political system.

It seems that for people who don't have the contacts to sufficiently network, working in New Media seems like a smarter outlet to express your ideas. If you make a VN or a game as a no name studio, if the VN/game looks good you could potentially go pretty big. Like VA-11 Hall-A or Hollow Knight.

On the other hand, it sounds like its basically impossible to get into publishing without a nepotisitc in, or if you aren't pursuing the standard pipeline (and even then it sounds more luck than skill)

To me everything in this thread confirms that traditional publishing, and that the novel as a medium of influence is a dying industry and art form. I also find it funny that it looks like they don't even want to adapt as their ship is sinking.

I did a video where I carefully lay out my hypothesis for why I think that the novel is dying, and that VNs of all things could potentially take their place as the next dominant medium that is focused on prose-narrative. If you have the time, I'd love to know what someone who was once involved in the publishing industry thinks about my points.

https://youtu.be/_BKoKMWOFrM