Comments on: about http://www.remixmylit.com literature that's Read&Write Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: melissa delaney http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-171 melissa delaney Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:17:28 +0000 #comment-171 i tend to think there is a place for "cut and paste" within creative writing and literature. it's approaching text as a creative medium, just like a painter would approach paint, and through random and intuitive engagement with the text, through a process, a new generation is reached, or made. i tend to think there is a place for “cut and paste” within creative writing and literature. it’s approaching text as a creative medium, just like a painter would approach paint, and through random and intuitive engagement with the text, through a process, a new generation is reached, or made.

]]> By: admin http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-89 admin Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:34:36 +0000 #comment-89 Suggest you check out the remixes we’ve received so far. None have actually been ‘cut up’ style. There’s a lot of original content, which certainly constitutes ‘creative writing’ and/or ‘literature’. ‘Cut up’ is simply one approach to remix. Yes we use text on screen; however it is a new form: it’s digital. And this allows for different forms of interaction and distribution than traditional hard copy texts. Suggest you check out the remixes we’ve received so far. None have actually been ‘cut up’ style. There’s a lot of original content, which certainly constitutes ‘creative writing’ and/or ‘literature’. ‘Cut up’ is simply one approach to remix. Yes we use text on screen; however it is a new form: it’s digital. And this allows for different forms of interaction and distribution than traditional hard copy texts.

]]> By: Victor Barker http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-86 Victor Barker Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:44:08 +0000 #comment-86 Just posted a comment where I should have said NOT to be encouraged or included in the idea of creative writing. Creative writing has to be just that. Seldom is more than one person involved in creative writing. Film scripts? Often a hotchpotch of rewrites by different people but not creative writing. But the ideas and emotions brought up and put onto paper by one writer are essential for creative writing as such. You probably, perhaps unwittingly,trip over the matchstick when you write " anachronistic ideas of print and text". Yet you have to use these selfsame print and text to speak to us on the net on our screens. Nothing anachronistic about them. I can understand people not liking print and text, or being frustrated by them, or being unable to handle them, or just not wanting to have anyhthing to do with them. That's fine, each to their own. But it is most misguided to encourage the cut and paste under the banner of creative writing or literature. It's a good fun pastime and helps to flex the mind, like crossword puzzles or scrabble. That's all. Just posted a comment where I should have said NOT to be encouraged or included in the idea of creative writing.

Creative writing has to be just that. Seldom is more than one person involved in creative writing. Film scripts? Often a hotchpotch of rewrites by different people but not creative writing.
But the ideas and emotions brought up and put onto paper by one writer are essential for creative writing as such.
You probably, perhaps unwittingly,trip over the matchstick when you write ”
anachronistic ideas of print and text”. Yet you have to use these selfsame print and text to speak to us on the net on our screens.
Nothing anachronistic about them. I can understand people not liking print and text, or being frustrated by them, or being unable to handle them, or just not wanting to have anyhthing to do with them. That’s fine, each to their own.
But it is most misguided to encourage the cut and paste under the banner of creative writing or literature.

It’s a good fun pastime and helps to flex the mind, like crossword puzzles or scrabble. That’s all.

]]> By: Victor Barker http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-85 Victor Barker Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:24:05 +0000 #comment-85 Sounds better to me - authors writing new works. I spent a lot of time studying Burroughs, and others, even stayed in the hotel where his pages blew out the window and were collected back in a complete muddle. Bit like throwing sticks for the I Ching - a lot of interesting things can appear out of apparent chance. But I think Burroughs would have been the first to agree that that his considered works (even through a haze of yage) were a whole lot more interesting and influential than his cut-ups. I feel likewise about the European authors who write books without using the letter 'e' etc. Great fun. So is scrabble. But to be encouraged as being creative writing. Sounds better to me - authors writing new works. I spent a lot of time studying Burroughs, and others, even stayed in the hotel where his pages blew out the window and were collected back in a complete muddle. Bit like throwing sticks for the I Ching - a lot of interesting things can appear out of apparent chance. But I think Burroughs would have been the first to agree that that his considered works (even through a haze of yage) were a whole lot more interesting and influential than his cut-ups.
I feel likewise about the European authors who write books without using the letter ‘e’ etc. Great fun. So is scrabble. But to be encouraged as being creative writing.

]]> By: admin http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-82 admin Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:37:48 +0000 #comment-82 Hi Victor. As we say on our homepage it's just the word 'remix' that is new, the concept is long established. We did a post on Burroughs' <a href="http://www.remixmylit.com/2008/07/01/remix-vs-cut-upmash-up-vs-fold-in/" rel="nofollow">cut up vs. remix</a>. RML exists in the web 2.0 environment where the internet offers greater opportunities for interactive and collaborative writing than ever before. Digitilisation changes the very 'form' of works beyond anachronistic ideas of print and text. There are new modes of distribution. In Burroughs' time there weren't whole remix & mashup cultures surrounding music, film & video. And here's where Creative Commons comes into its own. RML is just as interested in established Australian authors writing new works that are licensed under a CC license - and also how this may or may not affect their creative process - as we are in offering remix artists a space and quality texts to work with. Hi Victor. As we say on our homepage it’s just the word ‘remix’ that is new, the concept is long established. We did a post on Burroughs’ cut up vs. remix. RML exists in the web 2.0 environment where the internet offers greater opportunities for interactive and collaborative writing than ever before. Digitilisation changes the very ‘form’ of works beyond anachronistic ideas of print and text. There are new modes of distribution. In Burroughs’ time there weren’t whole remix & mashup cultures surrounding music, film & video. And here’s where Creative Commons comes into its own. RML is just as interested in established Australian authors writing new works that are licensed under a CC license - and also how this may or may not affect their creative process - as we are in offering remix artists a space and quality texts to work with.

]]> By: Victor Barker http://www.remixmylit.com/about/#comment-78 Victor Barker Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:51:27 +0000 #comment-78 I have a feeling you are fifty or sixty years too late. William Burroughs and Brion Gysin really worked the idea to death. I have a feeling you are fifty or sixty years too late. William Burroughs and Brion Gysin really worked the idea to death.

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