Text is Tricksy and I am Not Kidding
Know this universal warning: Beware of words and their meaning! Words are tricksy. Text is culturally malleable!
A UK associate and I exchanged email the other day. I live in the USA. He lives in the UK.
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Creation Breeds Imitation
Aristotle taught us we learn through imitation.
If Aristotle is right, then we need to be wary with our adoration in imitation because modeling the behavior of the wrong person can imprint a life in awful and classically tragic ways.
The creative process is also inspired by Aristotle’s revelation.
We only create what we what we experience. There are no new ideas. Nothing is created from nothingness.
Every inspiration has a core. Every idea has a pre-existing father.
Our job as artists is to conjoin separate, disparate, and outrageous existing ideas and present them as new thoughts that spark inspired learning processes in others.
We teach through surprise connections.
We learn because creation breeds imitation.
Medium Curse of the Hardcopy E-Book
If you write words for a paper page or an electronic interface, you are cursed by the medium of publication.
Hardcopy has a limited life and is stuck in stasis. You might get paid and you might not. It costs a lot of money to print, distribute and manage paper.
Electronic publication is fleeting and febrile. You likely will not be paid. Ever. You can, however, move with the wind, revise and fix at will, and have others scrape the wealth from you in illegal republication.
One medium promise eternity while the other guarantees death.
Which is the better devil?
Haunted by Words
Sometimes we are unaware of what we have written.
Our words always become ghosts to us and they haunt us in the quiet moments if we are not cogent of their power to harm when we create meaning by solidifying thoughts into form and placing words against each other for context.
Great Things About TypePad
I’ve had this WordPunk blog active on TypePad for a week now and I’ve made clear the things that concern me as a writer as I try to decide if buying into TypePad hosting is really worth $300.00 USD a year.
Sure, I could pay $90.00 USD a year for domain-mapped blogging on TypePad, but if you’re going to pay, why go small?
I have six more days to decide.
So here — in the air of being fair and delightful — are some things that TypePad does really well:
Going Great Guns
Teasing WordPunk on TypePad
Thank you for reading post and helping me tease WordPunk.com on TypePad.
I would appreciate if you’d bang around here a bit and see if you find anything broken or if you there’s something missing that should be added.
THANKS!
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