That makes sense. So I'm curious, if it's not a book, and not sold in bookstores, but is still text (etext or zine) is that enough distance? Or is the fact that the medium is the same still problematic if the distribution and visual cues are different? Or should I not have lumped etext and zine together?
For me? It's enough of a distance, which is why I don't mind and can be flattered or feel flattered; there is no sense in which I'm required to either curse or bless or edit. I can understand why you'd want to attach your name to the work, and I also -- were it my universe -- wouldn't mind that, either.
I'm continuing to mull over the idea of a writing form that exists almost, but not quite, as a communial act of imagination or property. I can't think of a writer, offhand, who could write original material that way -- but this is possibly a function of the process, i.e. only people who are capable of writing in a vaccuum push themselves through from start to finish. People who require community require something that, at least previous to this, didn't exist as part of the publication process.
Although on-line workshops, etc., are making the necessity to do that much less onerous, if you can work within that framework.
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Date: 2004-10-20 07:00 pm (UTC)For me? It's enough of a distance, which is why I don't mind and can be flattered or feel flattered; there is no sense in which I'm required to either curse or bless or edit. I can understand why you'd want to attach your name to the work, and I also -- were it my universe -- wouldn't mind that, either.
I'm continuing to mull over the idea of a writing form that exists almost, but not quite, as a communial act of imagination or property. I can't think of a writer, offhand, who could write original material that way -- but this is possibly a function of the process, i.e. only people who are capable of writing in a vaccuum push themselves through from start to finish. People who require community require something that, at least previous to this, didn't exist as part of the publication process.
Although on-line workshops, etc., are making the necessity to do that much less onerous, if you can work within that framework.