Comments on: What Readers Write May Not Be Literature, But It Might Become So

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:02:40 +0000

Note to self. Socrates told *Phaedrus* that writing is a simulation of speech, causing false knowledge. In So Many Books, Zaid observes that books might be considered unfeeling monologues, ignoring context, impersonal, dead (39). Rather like robots, eh. Books are fixed, ideas in a can. If that is all they were, that would be troublesome.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:28 +0000

Note to self. To write is to cross a boundary, to step from zero to one, to give a thing a name, to extend, to discover other. The Word, in a Biblical sense too, is a creative act.

By: barbara

barbara — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:59:07 +0000

Julia Cameron’s morning pages is one excellent way to exercise the brain (and the spirit). Thanks for mentioning that. There is also NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which begins today. Apparently a lot of people have a novel inside them, and this is an excuse to let it out.

Growing a book from your blog is another way of sharing both creative reading and creative writing, as well.