Julia Smillie wonders if technology and blogging has doomed writers. Mediocre writing always had a following, even though it didn’t transcend eras. Good writing still sells and IS read, while bad writing sells and sits. When I first started trying to get published in the 1980s, I read The Writer and Writer’s Digest religiously. Almost every issue contained at least one column or article that said this exact same thing. Then it was the word processor that imposed too much entropy on the craft. My guess is that, were I to dig into archives of writing mags, I’d find an entire history of this problem. I’ll bet some great, old critic like Chesterton wrote about the problem a hundred years ago when labor laws limiting the length of work weeks freed up the drabble to – Oh, my God – WRITE! Like US!
Writing Doomed?
Writing Doomed?
Writing Doomed?
Julia Smillie wonders if technology and blogging has doomed writers. Mediocre writing always had a following, even though it didn’t transcend eras. Good writing still sells and IS read, while bad writing sells and sits. When I first started trying to get published in the 1980s, I read The Writer and Writer’s Digest religiously. Almost every issue contained at least one column or article that said this exact same thing. Then it was the word processor that imposed too much entropy on the craft. My guess is that, were I to dig into archives of writing mags, I’d find an entire history of this problem. I’ll bet some great, old critic like Chesterton wrote about the problem a hundred years ago when labor laws limiting the length of work weeks freed up the drabble to – Oh, my God – WRITE! Like US!