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EXERCISE: Shakespeare the Blogger?
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mbarker.livejournal.comOriginal Posting 14 Jan 2010
An easy one for the weekend. Take one or more literary folks -- Shakespeare, Milton, Papa Hemingway, whoever you pick. Now, assume that they are living now, and are looking at the wonderful world of wriitng as we know it -- publishers pulling their hair out, blogs and other online outlets running rampant, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest looking at 10,000 submissions in a month, videogames, movies and all that jazz.
What would they do? Would Shakespeare post his sonnets in a blog? Would Leaves of Grass be a podcast? How about the music video Inferno by Dante?
Go ahead and dream. How would the masters of olde deal with the media of today and tomorrow?
You might even want to give us some examples of what happens when literary luminaries hit the modern stage?
Write!
An easy one for the weekend. Take one or more literary folks -- Shakespeare, Milton, Papa Hemingway, whoever you pick. Now, assume that they are living now, and are looking at the wonderful world of wriitng as we know it -- publishers pulling their hair out, blogs and other online outlets running rampant, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest looking at 10,000 submissions in a month, videogames, movies and all that jazz.
What would they do? Would Shakespeare post his sonnets in a blog? Would Leaves of Grass be a podcast? How about the music video Inferno by Dante?
Go ahead and dream. How would the masters of olde deal with the media of today and tomorrow?
You might even want to give us some examples of what happens when literary luminaries hit the modern stage?
Write!
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