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Sister-pages: Notes at WEB Directory with Sellassie WWW.
Use the right click and see how I use "txt" files.
First, the uniformity! Some functions you have on each page; in order not write it on each page, you could write it on one "txt" page, which will be inserted, as long as this mini page is in the same directory.
Second, the changes. You don't have to do it on every page, on ONE page only!
Originally, the Tripod served for all purposes; that's why you can find here everything -- writing, theatre, and film. Later the other websites grew and now I use this host for FILM only.
There is another "old" site -- Ant Theatre & Film, where you can find film files.
So, what is so special about the "film" site, regarding web-building?
Think ahead. In 2002 the webcating will be everywhere! Do you see the difference between web-PUBLISHING and web-BROADCASTING?
Another WEB door: WEB @ GeoAlaska
June 2002. Serious changes in thinking about web: organizing pages, according to the webdrama (new term) principles. To see pages like scenes in several plots (chapters as DVD technology call it; it will move on web soon). Dramatic narratives v. epic (Aristotle). Characters? I already began to introduce them (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, myself). Place the plot (story = action) on the top. The idea must be expressed through the story, not outside. Dramatic composition of each page with climax and resolution!
Not only the thought, but the plots and characters must link pages together. Some characters (narrators) are already migrating between directories (acting, directing, script analysis). Dialogues in style of Plato? Play and Game ideas.
Will it give more power to reader/viewer? The Global Theatre of One Spectator... (Must think it through!) Broadcasting v. publishing. Yes, the virtual theatre again!
Genres?
Summary
Notes on my generations of webpages (2004 is ".04")Questions
What does creative writing mean? Let us see first what "creative" means.My dictionary says, "Creative is something characterized by originality and expressiveness." That was my computer dictionary. My Encarta dictionary defines "creative" as "Using or showing use of the imagination to create new ideas or things."
And this is what Ernest Hemingway had to say about creativity:
"From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?"
Creative writing simply means telling something ordinary in an extra-ordinary manner and I believe every one of us has a stream of creativity flowing inside. If we remove the obstacles, if we thwart away the surrounding distractions, we can all mould our imagination in whatever manner we want to.
Notes
PERSEVERE: This is the most vital point, and the hardest to follow. Sometimes we give up when the destination is just round the corner. As F. Scott Fitzgerald has said, "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." Almost all successful people know how to persevere, and how to strive persistently. This takes us back to the point where I said you have to be desperate. Once you are desperate, you don't give up easily.
2006 & After
books [amazon]
Film does have a bigger appeal than Theatre and the numbers prove it (?)...
