Perhaps it is just a case of remaining in my cocoon too long. Or just not focusing on the direction that education and writing have taken while I avoided it to grapple with the everyday business of survival.
On my morning walk through space, I found such interesting insights into people and their ideas, such as in Creativectomy, wherein Jason explores his roots and his impulse to write. From creative literary weblogs, only a fraction of which I have discovered and are linked here on Spinning, to analysis of literature and the educational approach as affected by the internet such as that being discussed on The Great Lettuce Head, the times and the writers of the times, well, “they are achangin’ ” as the great Dylan (Bob, that is) would say.
Everyday People have an opportunity via weblogs to more easily take a few minutes to give voice to their creative ideas that get buried under a demanding reality. We’ve tended as a society to have time to read just the voices on the Best Seller Lists, applauding when a local such as Wally Lamb (She’s Come Undone) gets recognized by Oprah Winfrey, but then he too becomes part of the selected reading and only then will we make time for him.
There is a revolution that is in fact an evolution in literature going on that may or may not be a transition of the effects of war unless it be a medium war seeking its own path of existence. My own views that stubbornly once held the belief in the superiority of the physical book is being challenged in that out of thousands of manuscripts submitted, it is only the rare few who are selected for publishing by the major publishing houses. Readers are thereby limited to what we are being allowed to read by bias towards what’s “in”. Self-publishing has been a partial answer to diversification, but that takes an enormous amount of marketing and money. The internet with its e-zines, weblogs, and literary sites may be the best answer to progression and stimulation of individual creative thought that has been invented since the printing press.
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