Your replies are always so thoughtful and articulate, and I've really appreciated all your feedback on the work I've been doing, which is why I approached you here, to be honest. :)
This is a writing competition. It's not a fiction competition, but it is a writing competition. (And I wouldn't be too hard on the fiction writers, because they're the ones who were getting beat on last year). So I don't agree with your response, because if you are saying that the writing does not carry the work, if you agree with that assessment, then they are right: the writing needs to carry the work. The question, though, for me, is more about what people are perceiving as writing: are they understanding that a video is as valid a text as an essay? Are they understanding that a video needs to be written, in a way, before it is produced? That, like a comic is a written text that has been illustrated, a video is a written text that has been fed into a visual, linear format?
This whole paragraph highlighted what I was trying to say, but couldn't quite figure out - that is, there is a difference between 'putting text on paper' and 'writing' - and "multimedia writing" is still writing, even if it isn't "ordinary linear text". I am doing a whole bunch of research at the moment on the notion of multimedia writing, so I may well come back to you with some more thorough ideas to look over/discuss, if that's okay? I guess what I mean is that I've come across a number of people who take writing to be only words, so what I think they're actually saying is, "but the text I'm seeing doesn't carry the whole story" which would be true, I think. But this doesn't mean that the whole thing isn't "written", which might be why I'm getting so frustrated, because it feels kind of insulting. Does this make sense?
Also, I didn't mean to sound like I was beating on more "traditional" writers, or fiction writers - I've been greatly enjoying the range of writing-styles I've seen, and find each style as interesting as the next. I just don't think like that, so I feel it'd be disingenuous to submit entries in that form, y'know?
I really like your notion of including process notes with the entry - I may well do that - This week's entry in comic-form originally, and had a very specific starting point. I guess that's something I could play with in the future, which might show people how such an entry is created.
I'm not sure this goes anywhere near articulating exactly what I think about this, but I am considering it, and hopefully I will come up with something more solid in the next few days.
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Date: 2010-11-28 04:22 pm (UTC)This is a writing competition. It's not a fiction competition, but it is a writing competition. (And I wouldn't be too hard on the fiction writers, because they're the ones who were getting beat on last year). So I don't agree with your response, because if you are saying that the writing does not carry the work, if you agree with that assessment, then they are right: the writing needs to carry the work. The question, though, for me, is more about what people are perceiving as writing: are they understanding that a video is as valid a text as an essay? Are they understanding that a video needs to be written, in a way, before it is produced? That, like a comic is a written text that has been illustrated, a video is a written text that has been fed into a visual, linear format?
This whole paragraph highlighted what I was trying to say, but couldn't quite figure out - that is, there is a difference between 'putting text on paper' and 'writing' - and "multimedia writing" is still writing, even if it isn't "ordinary linear text". I am doing a whole bunch of research at the moment on the notion of multimedia writing, so I may well come back to you with some more thorough ideas to look over/discuss, if that's okay?
I guess what I mean is that I've come across a number of people who take writing to be only words, so what I think they're actually saying is, "but the text I'm seeing doesn't carry the whole story" which would be true, I think. But this doesn't mean that the whole thing isn't "written", which might be why I'm getting so frustrated, because it feels kind of insulting. Does this make sense?
Also, I didn't mean to sound like I was beating on more "traditional" writers, or fiction writers - I've been greatly enjoying the range of writing-styles I've seen, and find each style as interesting as the next. I just don't think like that, so I feel it'd be disingenuous to submit entries in that form, y'know?
I really like your notion of including process notes with the entry - I may well do that - This week's entry in comic-form originally, and had a very specific starting point. I guess that's something I could play with in the future, which might show people how such an entry is created.
I'm not sure this goes anywhere near articulating exactly what I think about this, but I am considering it, and hopefully I will come up with something more solid in the next few days.