As I see it, very few people "write" for a living. If they're novelists, they're entertainers. They entertain, for a living. Most novels are read for pure enjoyment, for pleasure. Readers don't purchase words, per se, or seek to make a donation to needy, deserving, authors. Book buyers are after the feelings, imagery, and transcendence that novels and their authors facilitate.
How-to and self-help books are purchased, mainly, to promote personal change. Readers are shopping for enhanced abilities and a freshened outlook. The writers that serve them are change-agents, coaches, counselors, teachers, and advisers.
Their assistance occurs through the written word and need help with do my essay for me uk, but to say they are primarily "writers" is to mistake their medium for the message. Farmers aren't truckers or railroad people. They create food and nutrition, sustaining lives. Farmers only employ wheels and rails as vehicles in which to deliver their true value.
Asking the question posed by management guru Peter F. Drucker is of great help in distinguishing what we actually do from what we think we are doing. He urged us to ask:
"What business am I really in?"
The answer isn't always obvious, and if it comes too quickly, it is often wrong. Railroads, according to Drucker, were eclipsed by airfreight and trucking because they failed to define their mission more broadly, as being in the transportation business, with or without rails.
