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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."



Cicero 43 BCE



BCOF: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Do you agree or disagree? Do you think everyone is writing these days- a book, short stories, poetry or memoirs as Cicero indicates. Does this impact us as writers ourselves? Are we one of Cicero's everyone's? What's make us different?

Blog City Prompt: In this time with the internet so easily accessible, how do you determine what is worth reading when it is so easy for people to publish whatever? What criteria is important to you when you read online articles, stories?


Alright ladies & gentlemen hold on to your seats, while I may not be blowing your mind I am about to give all that reading this an ear full.

Talk about needing a editor. WOW!

Yes it is true that times are bad, yet now worse than any other time in history. What makes an era seem is worse than before is the advancement in technology and media. Ever decade sense the start of time has its "worse ever" time. The reality is that is actually only history repeating itself. The difference is in how it is done and how many know about it.

Due the advance of technology the means in which we attack each other is different, but no more or less harmful than the ways they did it In the past. It seems as if more people are affected only because due the advances in the media more are finding out about it quicker. The truth is that it has always affected the same amount of people it just took longer in the past.

Please don't misunderstand me, I approve of all the advances in both areas. In my opinion the good is just as potent as the bad. The good spreads faster, quicker and to more people. The real trick of it is putting it to proper use.

"Children no longer obey their parents..." ? Are you kidding me?! They never did, unless they were actually parented. Again the times suffer from the dark being brought into the light. Teen pregnancy, young crimes, disobeatance all of it has always been here. Depending on which era you are looking at will determine how you find it; teen girls joining a convent for a year or so, young kids forming "gangs" (which painted their opinions of structures and stayed out late), or "troubles teens" that harmed other and themselves because adults refused to believe kids over adults and left them no way out of bad situations. It has always been here. We are slowing evolving to understanding that all have a voice and should be listen to but still manage to misuse the knowledge.

"...everyone is writing a book". Good Havens it is about time. On this one I do believe it is close to the truth. Thankfully due to the advances and access to recourses it does in fact seem like everyone is writing these days. I for one am all for it and hope to see it grow until it as expected and accepted as drinking water is.
In my personal opinion knowing that everyone is writing will cause those dedicated to their craft to strive even harder for that "stand above the rest" excellence, will allow those that would not be heard under current standards to be heard and most importantly with inspire more creativity.
As we all know you take a group of people (say 10), have the witness and experience the exact same sinoreo and get 10 different stories. Each person is seeing it though different eyes with different back rounds in regards to what they are witnessing. Even if they have the exact same back round you are still more likely than not to get different stories of the same moments.
In summary I do believe "the more things change the more they stay the same". I agree that is dose seem everyone is writing something and I personally believe that is helping the entire industry. For those who are devoted to the craft it gives us the incentive to strive harder, for those just putting their words out there it is creating more jobs for editors and publishers.
As for how you are able to weed though what is worth reading and what is not, that is a personal choice. Although we all have our preferences, I would recommend reading things that are from a totally different area especially the ones that you might deem unworthy to be published.
Why read what you normally would pass on? Reading what you feel is unworthy can help you to evaluate your own writing, giving you a new way of seeing things, keep you up with what the readers of today consider readable or just you take mental notes of what another could add to that area.
Thank you for the prompt and for all those that took the time to listen to my side of the subject.

Taz

Embracing & Feeding the writing addiction