Monday, November 27, 2006
Another asset in jeopardy
Over on Free Space Comix, Brian Stefans has announced his print-on-demand book, It's not Time. What's interesting about this (aside from the fact that just about anything Brian does is interesting) is his statement of motivation, that he's been "enjoying print design much more than web work lately."
Back to his roots I guess, even though he has done some outstanding e-lit, most notably Kludge. I've posted on Kludge before: affectatiyuns can be dangertus. It's a great piece (Kludge, not my post) not just for the concept, but for the writing that supports it.
But what's a guy to do when he's a better writer than technician? As much as I would like to see more e-lit from Brian, print-lit is what he's best at--and where he should expend his efforts.
And so e-lit suffers another setback. Will e-lit be like the collaborative discussion sites that have turned into mere bulletin boards? Once so full of promise--now a promise broken. Seems the electron only lightly bonds to the author--as it does to the scholar.
Lose the writers and we lose the lit part. I fear that when all that's left is the e part, we'll just be second-rate magicians working the same old and tired parlor tricks.
Oh well....
# posted by Jim @ 9:03 PM 
