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Duda con el mundo de la publicación

¡Hola! Antes de nada, no quiero ni de coña vivir de ser escritor ni nada de eso, osea que mi proceso creativo es única y exclusivamente por amor al arte y para la realización personal, básicamente porque he descubierto lo jodidamente divertido que es escribir y quiero volverlo un habito.

Bien, entonces es cuando abres Internet y ves toda la movida que es el mundo de las publicaciones, diablos, vivía en el mundo de yupie, me he quedado flipando cuando he visto que las editoriales no te dejan ni elegir la portada de tu libro, con razon la mitad son feillas y encima ahora con el tema ia me da pánico solo de pensarlo

Bien el caso, como ya he dicho me gustaría en unos años cuando tenga algo perfeccionado que me mole publicarlo, tengo una idea que me apasiona, pero enserio no es por beneficios no es para vivir de ello mas bien que quiero que pueda ser algo de lo que me sienta orgulloso y que pueda verlo mucha gente, pero tampoco veo subirlo de gratis, mas que nada porque me gustaría que tuviera algo de prestigio y no fuera una simple historia de watpad (con respeto a los historiones de watpad)

Igual es que tengo muchos pájaros en la cabeza pero, gente ¿que me recomendarian?

De primeras pensé que la respuesta clara era autopublicar pero luego he leido que te obliga a invertir mucho dinero, ¿de cuanto hablaríamos? Porque no me importa dejarme 300 euros o algo mas pero tampoco voy a dejarme todos los ahorros en un libro que no va a leer ni Peter.

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u/Simple_Pigeon_1153 — 5 days ago

"Pueblerino" question

First of all, I want to be honest with you guys: I'm genuinely very new to all of this. I’ve never been involved in activism or close to anything political because the idea of taking action in real life repulsed me, so please, excuse in advance my huge ignorance and the very likely stupidity of my questions.

Okay, let's start. I'm very new to all of this; in fact, I'm still researching the libertarian movement. From what I’ve been reading around here, many people have had a similar journey to mine: you start out a bit communist, you get disillusioned by Stalin, disappointed when you learn more about Lenin, and you end up seeing the flaws in everything that has to do with the state and hierarchy... As I said, I'm new to this, I've just recently started reading about the topic. I started with David Graeber—I loved "Debt" and read some fragments of "The Dawn of Everything"—then came Bookchin, and from there, what I read most now is anything related to Abdullah Öcalan. I know they might not be strictly anarchists, but anyway, I'm generally very interested in practical implementation, Makhnovshchina, Zapatistas... I want to know what an assembly is like, how it works, failures, successes, everything.

Getting back to the main topic: I'm from a small city in Spain, and I emphasize small. There's a CNT building, but not much else when it comes to anarchism. Everything else is or communist parties that are as we call it here "casposos" or some antifascist organization.

To be honest, I don't see myself joining a union, but I want to know: besides attending the different talks and debates organized by the CNT, should I be doing anything else? If I feel a certain organization might be interesting to me even if it's socialist, like CJS (Coordinadora Juvenil Socialista), is it a good idea to approach them even if they aren't anarchist? Does anyone have a similar situation to mine?

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u/Simple_Pigeon_1153 — 2 months ago
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Is "The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama" a good history book?

I've been completely fed up with reading on an ebook for a while now, so I'm looking for a good history book in print. I'm from a relatively small city in Spain, and I'm very interested in Asian and African history. Lately, I've been dying to dive deep into Tibet—not for spiritual reasons, but out of pure cultural interest.

The thing is, it's a bit tough here because there is barely any historiography available in Spanish, and even less accessible in local libraries. However, I managed to find this book: "The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama".

I'm reading good reviews, but I'm highly skeptical. Mostly because I read that the Dalai Lama isn't exactly an angel, and above all, because I've heard that independent Tibet was actually a very dark, feudal, and slave-owning regime.

Is this a good introductory read, or does it stray from a serious historical and social analysis?

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u/Simple_Pigeon_1153 — 3 months ago