Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Literary Congestion

 I've been writing keyword articles for textbroker.com.  I only resorted to writing for textbroker out of sheer exhaustion with my personal work. As I've mentioned before its good to start multiple works when your having a slow period with your writing.  Textbroker gave me the  fresh ideas and this kept me writing through the rough times when I wasn't sure what to write .  I also wanted the practice with writing web-content for my own website and they offer feedback and guidelines where that is concerned.
At any rate,  sometimes while writing these articles, I feel as though it is impossible to put a fresh perspective on the same old topics due to the literary congestion of the world wide web. This led me to remembering the author, Italo Calvino's Six Memo's for the Next Millenium. "In the even more congested times that await us, literature must aim at the maximum concentration of poetry and thought." Calvino lectures future writers on the topics of Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity.  Throughout his writing he suggests being concise, conveying as much information as possible in your writing in the shortest space.  He says he'd "like to edit a collection of tales consisting of only one line," and offers an example, Augusto Monterroso's, "Cuando desperto, el dinosauro todavia estaba alli." (When I woke up, the dinosaur was still there.)



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