Wednesday, March 17, 2010
How Many Words Would a Writer-Person Write if a Writer-Person Could Write Words?
Sometimes I forget how lucky I am.
I mean, I live in the world that I live in. Frankly, it doesn't get much better than that. Thank goodness I wasn't born in a country where females are viewed as property, and therefore not worth educating. Thank goodness I wasn't born into a place where books don't exist, or a time where only the rich could read because only the rich could afford books. Or with a disability that would mean the same things.
Of course, there's always the oral tradition. This post isn't about that, though.
It's just a concept that I've been philosophizing to myself about today. What would happen if everyone (and I mean everyone) in the world could write a story?
Tell me what you think. Do you think things would be any different, or would they stay pretty much the same?
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They'd stay more or less the same I think. The only difference would be how the social strata get figured out.
ReplyDeleteI think we live in a cool age where a lot of people are writing. There are so many more ideas floating around than there were pre-Gutenberg. I guess that's why the Catholic Church kind of freaked out about what was flying off the printing press, eh?
ReplyDeleteI don't think the world would change that much. If everyone wrote a story I doubt any of us would have time to read all of them. Isn't that what most stories are about anyways? The things in people that never change?
ReplyDeleteOh, I think they'd be different. Not sure how, but maybe writing wouldn't be so magical? Books wouldn't mean as much? Stories would be commonplace?
ReplyDeleteI think it'd be worse -- there's already too much clutter (and too many people) -- that's my positive thought for the day :). Bane out.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bane. Too much clutter. And then the really good writing will be hard to find because it's covered up by the clutter.
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