READERS:
Who are they? What difference do they make?
They are you. The difference is whether or not writers continue to throw themselves into sharing their work to the world at large, or revert to keeping it all to themselves.
The line between sharing and hoarding? It’s one walked daily by every writer, every where.
You think electronic intelligence is going to stop writers from writing?
Wait, give me a minute.
Paused to wipe tears from my eyes. Sad? NO! Was laughing so hard. No one can stop writers from writing.
Writers have and will always write. It’s a given; even as we slog through the bowels of a block that drives us crazy.
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What you, the reader, mega millionaires, thousandaires and every single egocentric who wants to rule the world desires is the ability to control the narrative (also known as critics). Some writing is liked, some loved, and sadly some despised, but (and here is the important part) all writing is out there for connection. Transcending time, two are meeting and connecting over thoughts and emotions.
Read 1984. Orwell was predicting the future that is now. Once we lose the freedom to create, we lose control of our narrative. We lose control of our narrative. We lose control of our own story.
First, we lose our words. Then, our style. Slowly our choices over even what to wear are reduced to a preselected set. It is no longer a free market.
You get what you get and be glad of it, or so the story goes.
But that theory has a flaw. It purports that the majority are controllable and without free will or thought. That is the flaw.
Seriously. Think about it. If free will and thought aren’t already ours, then all the laws every where throughout centuries would have prevented theft and death. They haven’t, because you can’t govern will or thought. Only individually do we decide that life and respect of others ownership is a value we hold and thereby build our own individual boundaries of integrity.
This is the thin line of internal debate that has been swirling around while doing the dishes, laundry, going to work at a job that isn’t writing, and wondering what the future for writers will look like. How to exist in that world?
Does anyone have a working typewriter for sale? Manual, not electronic. Thinking it is time to learn some ancient skills. Paper making, ink from walnut husks; you know, really old school.
It could happen.
