Authoring platform
An author or literature platform represents a certain type of online community on which authors can present their works.
Function of an authoring platform
Author platforms offer assistance on topics that revolve around the written word. Many aspiring writers or those who would like to become writers have problems. A lack of feedback and a lack of criticism are just two examples. Often there is also no possibility to present one's own works to a larger readership, as well as basic background knowledge.
Authoring platforms are communities that aim to share knowledge about what has been written; they offer the opportunity to publish works online and allow authors to give each other feedback. Some authoring platforms go a step further and provide information e.g. B. via literary competitions , tenders for short stories or the usual procedures of publishers .
Not every internet presence on which someone publishes his or her work is called an author platform (e.g. a simple forum). Examples of criteria are:
- Possibility to manage your own account
- Self-presentation in the form of an editable profile
- Publishing, revising and deleting your own texts
- Overview of all texts published on the platform
- Navigation mechanisms to be able to read profiles and texts of other platform users
- Central theme of literature and / or poetry
- Discussion forum
- Feedback from other users and the opportunity to respond to it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gesine Boesken, Literary Action on the Internet, Writing and Reading Rooms on Literature Platforms, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 978-3-86764-236-1