Another interesting conversation I recently had... Someone said that facebooking, blogging, tweeting and such can cut into a writers ability to write. Sort of an emptying of the well theory. As if one could use up all the words in a given day and not leave enough remaining for storytelling. I call bullshit. For one, writing is a rather never-ending well and by generating more words, it only seems to leave so many more unsaid. More like a field, properly tended, rather than a well at all. If you plant things and see that they are tended, youve an endless possibility of things left to harvest. Perhaps there is a growing time, a planting time, but at the end of the day, what youve sown and what youve sown before often crops up right next to one another, giving you both old and new things to harvest. For two, in the past the greats have written copious letters--most of which both thrilled and horrified biographers trying to piece together the life of the writer because of the sheer number of correspondences. I fail to see how a modern writer--dropping a line now and again to the masses rather than to a distant lover or Aunt Mildred or what have you--cuts any further into their writing ability than the writers of old who had to take the time to post their missives while we can simply click send. The internet can be a great and powerful distraction, admittedly, but I cannot see the logic in blaming social media for a persons lack of desire to create stories. Just my opinion. Thoughts?
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:01:05 +0000
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