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Ecriture (Writing)

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Actusf aux Imaginales. Sire Cédric prend la pause Jean-Claude Dunyach dédicace Pierre Bordage écoute un lecteur.

Actusf aux Imaginales

Blog de generation-ecriture - Génération écriture : les projets des jeunes auteurs - Skyrock.com.

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RPG. Anti Page Blanche - Writing. Alone, With Words. Writers write in order to be read.

Alone, With Words

This is obvious. But the speed with which words, once written, are now being read—a speed shaped by technological innovations long before the Internet turned the quick turnaround into the virtually instantaneous turnaround—has set me to thinking about the extent to which writing, for the writer, ought to have a freestanding value, a value apart from the reader.

There is too much talk about the literary marketplace, the cultural marketplace, and the marketplace of ideas. We need to remember that a book—or a painting or a piece of music—begins as the product of an individual imagination, and can retain its power even when largely or even entirely ignored.