Digital Age

Angela Maiers said it best: Writing is something you live, and it doesn't matter how you get it written as long as it gets done.

I came to the realization, in this day and age, how spoiled we truly are. We live in a digital age where everything is instantaneous. Life moves at an expeditious rate.

Imagine, for a moment, those authors who paved the way before us on their trusty typewriters. And then imagine as we receive our manuscript back from an editor with all those bright red marks we accumulate during a typical editing session. I’ll do one even better, go back even before whiteout was invented. No wonder the suicide rate for those authors who came before us was at an astronomical rate, as they were secluded away from civilization or drank themselves into an early grave.

Now, in this digital age, we can switch paragraphs around and add an excerpt to our liking with a simple cut, copy & paste technique. A quick click of a delete button can remove errors as we navigate any written obstacle with ease.

We are so very privileged to connect with other authors and writers any time we want thanks to many forms of technology. Writer Cory Doctorow once said: The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally.



Our words, are our power; the stories we tell and how we tell them will define our place in the digital age.







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SK Thomas is a writer, author, book reviewer and the curious creative complex brain behind this blog. Connect @skthomasauthor or http://www.skthomasauthor.com to learn more about her Pawned Queen Thriller Series.