Opportunities for Writing Online Abound!
January 27th 2007 14:22
Self-expression has never been easier! Between e-mailing, blogging, posting poetry, short stories, and articles on a wide array of subjects--and to an almost endless variety of websites--not to mention waxing eloquent in our comments on the works of others posted to those sites--we have today almost unlimited opportunities to have our voices heard!
Isn't that a great development? If you are still in the bloom of youth, you may not remember a time when things weren't this way, but I can assure you that the freedom for the average person to instantly transmit the written word halfway across the world is indeed a relatively recent phenomenon--and it is phenomenal!
Just twelve short years ago, I remember being in college, taking an advanced English composition class, writing papers that were 13 pages long, and thinking how tough it was that I didn't have a word processor, but only an electric typewriter! (That truly did make edits and rewriting difficult!)
Fairly soon thereafter, though, I did thankfully graduate to a Brother word processor--if not from college--and at the time, that word processor was a lifesaver! (It really was like a 'brother' to me!)
After that came computers, but even then, we aspiring writers still had to mail out absolutely anything we ever hoped to see published and wait endless weeks or months to hear back from seriously overworked editors--to whom we'd sent material that was as seriously mismatched to their publications, in our ignorant but enthusiastic inexperience--only to at last receive the dreaded rejection slip! That innocent looking little slip of paper, which dashed all our dreams--the response we'd so long awaited and on which all our hopes had rested--was, I think, our right of passage.
Enter: the internet, our gateway to the world, our means of access to a worldwide audience, a global community with whom we are able to freely communicate and share ideas, literally--not to mention literarily--24/7! The internet venues available to us today are 'virtually' endless! All it takes is a little networking with other writers who have discovered worthwhile websites, or a bit of patience and persistence in utilizing our search engines, and a whole new world of opportunity opens before us! What a time to be alive--and writing!
Next time, we'll talk about some of the websites--besides this one--that our writing can realistically adorn--some paid and some not. Have any favorites of your own you'd like to share?
Till next time,
Jeanne
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Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
i think it's wonderful to have our own spaces to pour all our words into, to be read .. though i'm not too fussed about being published (anymore lol) ... as a poet; my goal is to inspire...
What a time to be alive--and writing!
... indeed!!
~Lily
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Jeanne