Have We Written Too Much?

By David Kirtley

Fri, 29 Dec 2017
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Have We Written Too Much?

 

We wrote stories to sell as paperbacks, hardbacks and short stories.

Then the movies, crime dramas, science fiction, thrillers, fantasy and historical drama.

We repeat ourselves, over and over again, building collectively the artistic base of our civilisation,

While paying ourselves less and less for the words, until there is no profit in it any more.

Internet has taken over, everything is for free and nothing is noticed.

Its all been done before or it is taken up by the ones who are successful or have been noticed,

The ones who know how to advertise effectively.

It is all increasingly out of out reach,

and most of what most of us have written will hardly be remembered, by anyone!

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Comments

Submitted by David Kirtley on

I wrote this on 26th April 2017.

Don't let me put you off writing though!

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

'It's an ongoing situation'  to borrow a cliche. Back in the 70's Adrian Mitchell said 'most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.' Book reviewers for the broadsheets put me off for a while. These 'big experts' seemed to chew over poems in a subtle, over-refined and obscure way as if they were tasting expensive Swiss chocolates on a connoisseur's palette. There was no personal response, all posh farting and not a word of how the poem made them feel.

Rant over and I like your poem, David.

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

Thanks for your comment Elsie. I agree we seem to have moved forward from the clinical academic marking exercise approach to literary criticism, which has got to be good news. I think we give more of a personal response now on abctales. Personally my poetic attempts are not usually technical exercises at all but tend to be fairly casual expressions of opinion or feeling. My stories or my long novel are more contrived or serious attempts.

I am sure the oversaturation of writing in our creative society is not new. It just seems that we get noticed less, but the internet has also given opportunities for sharing, abctales being a particularly good place to share.