Song of fading

[aesmael]

These days it looks a lot like media is shifting. Paper-print being slow replaced with online and new emerging media growing. Even text where it does persist is being cut shorter, people less willing to read a single item for so long. So it seems perhaps those who wish to create had best adapt their craft as popular forms change yet again, and possibilities previously unavailable are opened.

And I do not choose to adapt. There might be a few ideas which take advantage of possibilities unavailable or more difficult in traditional forms, what we mostly want to do is write our long prose stories, even if that is a slowly fading form. And we could be wrong, but we're still resigned to doing our thing even if the winds blow against it being where the future goes.

Comments

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Don't let twitter and such things mislead you. There is a place for all of this.

[syntaxia.livejournal.com]

I don't think the rising popularity of short forms and seemingly related inability/unwillingness to focus on longer forms extends to fiction.

For any writing that I'd call "functional" - news, descriptions, any sort of instruction, and related categories - yes, the shorter, the better. There's just too much of it all to devote time to reading endless pieces that don't add much information.

When it comes to reading for pleasure, this goal has doesn't apply. All that is contained in the story (however long) is meant to be part of the story and brings important information just by virtue of being there. (If it doesn't, than we're dealing with a bad writer.)

So I don't see people giving up books with the comment "TL;DR LOL" just yet.

[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

There might be a few ideas which take advantage of possibilities unavailable or more difficult in traditional forms, what we mostly want to do is write our long prose stories, even if that is a slowly fading form. And we could be wrong, but we're still resigned to doing our thing even if the winds blow against it being where the future goes.

Beautifully put. :)

I look forward to reading you in print, little sister. And I will read your work, of course.

[coniferous_you]

I think the people who loved books will continue to do so, and I'm sure there will be children to join this esteemed group as well.

And, well, the people who never wanted to read in the first place will now have an exponentially increased amount of options to avoid it.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

*hug* *nods* I agree w/ u :) You need to write and create in whatever mediums and styles that best suit your ideas and the expression of those ideas regardless of their usage in current and changing society :)