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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2007-11-13 10:28 am
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Point to ponder
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no-one will ever be in need of a writer.
Discuss, taking care to distinguish between "need" as we might externally perceive it from our civilised standpoint, and need as it would appear to people whose primary concern is survival.
Discuss, taking care to distinguish between "need" as we might externally perceive it from our civilised standpoint, and need as it would appear to people whose primary concern is survival.
Recursion
Though whether you 'needed' to is a whole other kettle of worms.
I rather suspect that the US media industry is finding out right now how much they 'need' writers to survive. Admittedly we are not talking about a subsistence culture in Hollywoodland itself, but they have to get the necessary coffee and stimulants from somewhere.
Re: Recursion
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Who else is going to be the main course?
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Do you ever need a writer of fiction rather than an oral storyteller who can use written non-fiction? Maybe not.
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(Anonymous) 2007-11-13 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)To quote some writer or other....
Michael Cule
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Doctor, dentist, EMT, firefighter, search-and-rescue worker, police officer maybe. There aren't that many people who work at the bleeding edge between life and death.
Of course, if we count all the people who make it possible for the above people to do their jobs--people making surgical instruments and drugs, people training dentists and EMTs, people fueling firetrucks and helicopters, people growing and preparing food for search and rescue operations... hmm. Pretty soon we're back to needing most people. Including fiction writers, who, IMO give everyone concerned a well-earned sanity break.
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I also want to know if we are defining "writer" as "one who can read and write" or "one who is skillful with words" or both.
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