I thought that web could help me to work on my nonfiction. It was several years ago. I was wrong. Web asks for its own style of writing. We still use words like "webpages" -- but they are as much "pages" as "chapters" on your DVD. What is web -- broadcasting?
Web did not prove of any help for me; my short-hand style writing became even more "note-only" format. Web has its own tempo -- I hardly read what I write. Do I know the laws of this new writing medium?
I write. Is it better than a typewriter?
It's different.
Instead of simply writing I am editor and publisher at the same time. I have to oversee the layout and fonts, I have to think about the public... Very bad for a writer.
Writing online is very different type of writing. When I began my nonfiction notes (almost ten years ago), I didn't think about readers. I still have many notebooks, which are not on the WEB -- they all about my own struggle to communicate with myself, not with you. Now I am serving a differnt task...
I am serving myself. And - I don't think it's right.
Look at this page -- what is it?
Advertising, self-advertising, pix and etc.
Is it really MY pages?
How did it take place?
No, I am not a writer anymore...
I crossed the line.
Why did I do it?
Why do I do it?
New technologies tell me that I do not need anybody. I do not need an editor or publisher. I do not need ANOTHER to discover me, I don't need any recognition, admiration, appreachiation -- I do it all by myself. "Theatre of One" (see "virtual theatre" files)? How about "self-reader"? How about a writer who doesn't need readers? How about readers who do not need writers?
It's coming. It's here. What a world!
"My books" are indeed mine. Mine only. My and only.
Internet is a final goodbye to being together. This internet is hell and paradise we heard so much about. "My books"? Goodbye to books...
Goodbye to myself. I die before I die.
I do it myself. I write it straight to the WEB, not my hand-written diary...
Anatoly, 3.4.04
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