I Wish We Could Follow the Story, Not the Author

But you can’t take the human out of the story, right?

Rui Alves
The Point of View
Published in
5 min readJun 12, 2024

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Asian woman reading a book outdoors.
Image by Min An on Pexels

I’ve dreamed of a place where all stories are anonymous—a place where we could follow the story, not the author. I’ve dreamed of finding stories that align themselves with others to form not a portfolio but an anonymous synchronous stream of meaning.

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Rui Alves
The Point of View

Language teacher, linguist, life coach, published author (joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.