Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Writing in the now.
I enjoy writing and Ive been on computers for years. I think I remember typing not too long after learning to write. My penmanship is pretty horrible because of it but the only thing I ever write normally is a signature. Today we all communicate online like in the article WE ARE ALL WRITERS NOW. The internet has become a giant social network for everyone creating writers of everyone good or bad. The funny thing I think is that despite youtube and other sites the internet seems to be made to be a machine of words. The internet writing can be pretty bad but to point at one thing and proclaim that all of it is bad is being pretty foolish. Take twitter for example I'm sure if you search eating lunch you'd get a bunch of people just announcing that which for the most part is totally pointless. You have to look through to find the good amongst the bad. I also think that the internet allows people who might not have had a chance to get a published work out there a voice.
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Writing out a list to go grocery shopping, or updating your status, to me, doesn't mean you're a writer. Knowing how to write and complete a sentence doesn't automatically throw you into the realm of writers, who do so for a living. I want to see someone come up with a 140 character poem on twitter, then I will be impressed. Blogging, I like it, because it is a place where writers can try out their new material and see the feedback from it. Also, online writing has a plethra of acronyms and slang that is unusual and sometimes useless, because it is very ambiguous. Updates don't always help younger minds know how to write, because they're not worried about the words they use.
ReplyDeleteA bit brief, but I agree with most everything you said.
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