WRITING: Sharing

Even as many new writers still present their manuscripts with a circle-c (copyright), the world is changing around us all.  At if:book, there is a post on discontent–the idea that the write, create, share, principle is the way of the future.  Though this post refers more to the publishing houses and media, it is something that could and should be taken to heart by the writer as well. 

This is a new way of thinking, and maybe, in this me! me! me! society, it’s one way that writers can give something back.  Selfish witch that I be, this in particular got me thinking in a more magnanimous manner.  Either this, or the big 60 looming on the fall horizon.

But in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract value. You want to add value. You don’t want to build walls or fences or gardens to keep people from doing what they want to do without you. You want to enable them to do it. You want to join in.

Now that’s a nice way of seeing things.