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Jun. 2nd, 2011 10:37 amSo there I was, Bach flowing through the skull candy while I puttered around this week's Flame entry when I suddenly realised...I was framing the shots. Of course this is something I only do with prose...err..but wait, that is not true. I do it with poetry too at times, although not as frequently. I even do it with music. A number of my compositions are actually soundtracks to films or shows that have never been produced.
Which led me to wonder. Up until, oh say the Roaring Twenties, that would not have been an issue so much. Granted there was artwork, but the art of the time was not very..hmm..representational? And what films there were had very limited dialogue, given the whole silent film thing going on at the time.
The end result was that authors were very insulated. They almost had to write about what they knew because there was little outside influence. Except for other authors. But now we are constantly bombarded by other people's lives, real or imagined. So what, I wonder, had this done to we writers of the 21st Century.
As I also realise we are coming up on the Centenary of the Roaring Twenties. Will we have to come up with a new name for them to differentiate between the 20th and 21st Century? Should there be flapper parties in memory of that bygone time?
Which led me to wonder. Up until, oh say the Roaring Twenties, that would not have been an issue so much. Granted there was artwork, but the art of the time was not very..hmm..representational? And what films there were had very limited dialogue, given the whole silent film thing going on at the time.
The end result was that authors were very insulated. They almost had to write about what they knew because there was little outside influence. Except for other authors. But now we are constantly bombarded by other people's lives, real or imagined. So what, I wonder, had this done to we writers of the 21st Century.
As I also realise we are coming up on the Centenary of the Roaring Twenties. Will we have to come up with a new name for them to differentiate between the 20th and 21st Century? Should there be flapper parties in memory of that bygone time?
