WRITING: STORY SELECTS ITS FORM!
This was the underlying theme of my presentation and yet I still screw up!
In transferring weblog postings to paper book form, I ran into some minor troubles. Some were program or perhaps o/s related (and if not for my unskilled but eager hands, the problems were possibly more easily overcome) such as the transfer of font style and size, the non-transfer of hyperlinks, and the necessity to reverse order the postings. Done.
But there are trails, just as in hypertext, that may be overlooked when the main problem is fixed but the succession of influence isn’t thoroughly checked into. Even as I reversed the postings, I’d forgotten the references: "in the post below" doesn’t mean that anymore!
Oh well, this was just to make available in hard copy the Storyspace posts for myself and two others. Limited edition publication, and one’s already in the mail.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
Story selects it’s form. So does sound. I’ve written many songs that were steered to their destination by the acoustic properties of the instrument chosen. In other words, if I compose on a kazoo, the song is quite different than if I use a guitar.
I’m finding the same true with writing, though I’d never thought about it in as concrete terms as you’ve put it.