I'm having to relearn the business of writing. The creation of articles is something that you learn from years of experience, but the delivery is ever changing. In the old days you cut a record and then went looking for someone to manufacture and distribute that record. Along came iTunes and YouTube and all the rules changed. This is good, and bad. Good, in that everyone can instantly display their product, but there is a down side. Time was you had to pay your dues. If you had a song, or book that was good perhaps some one would pick you up and publish you. The room at the top was very small, and once there you competed against other people who, like you, had been through the fire and knew the deal. Now your competition is everyone on the net.
But the basic talent remains the same. The tools are all that changed. Would it make Mark Twain any less Mark Twain if he were to be using a word processing program rather than pen and paper. Would Leonardo de Vinci be less on Photoshop? My formula remains the same. Write, write, write. All successful song writers have written hundreds,mif not thousands of songs. It's the same with blogging. I write as much as I can. Every time a good idea hits, I put it down.
This is an exciting time for writers. I expect we will see an entirely new art form develop. New Betty Crockers as ordinary housewives share their knowledge. New political ideas as people venture into areas that were minority thoughts before. The world library is growing by leaps and bounds, and the old restrictions of the human spirit are being ripped away. The world is becoming one mind, not always agreeing, but always communicating, and as long as that happens there is always hope.
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