It's so much of a relief to see that so many writers and artists I admire are so derelict at keeping up their professional web presence.
Indeed, these elaborate tombs litter the virtual landscape in a historically aberrant way. Raiders have no interest in them, and they seem to have the current value of the past. As ignored and if noted, welcome as the wads of I wuz here chewing gum gracing the darkside of chairs, tables, desks, mattresses--the discarded present turned to unconsciously sculpted concrete.
I figure most of us didn't become writers to sell ourselves, or an image of ourselves. Most of us, I think, just wanted to be storytellers. Somehow we got trapped into a Marshall McLuhan nightmare of medium and message and there's no way out...
ReplyDeleteLike misled flies with the brains of humans, dying in a patch of air we tricked them into thinking a jar.
ReplyDeleteAnd the worst part is that all the effort put into making a writer interesting mostly doesn't add up to making them even a person of interest. It is just busy work to satisfy a non-need, as the act of writing is passive obsessive--an imitation art flick--hours of "The bum on the chair". It's the story coming out of that stultified body that is the interesting sentient, or isn't.
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ReplyDeleteI think a lot of us are so intent on creating fiction that we forget to do any other work towards promotion. Garry x
ReplyDeleteGarry Kilworth (I’m blurting out your name so that others might find and partake of your infinite variety), I'm sorry you aren't as famous as you deserve, I'm grateful as a reader that your bent has always been to create enthralling fiction of deep worth and meaning that remains relevant even as times stay the same and change. The legacy of a writer can be judged by what people actually read by that writer. There are plenty of writers who excelled at publicity for that is all that they really had to them. They became celebrities at the expense of their "work". The push to be a celebrity who would then be able to be marketed through products (mugs, novels, drinks, dogfood) is dismaying, but maybe the only tattered raft that a publisher has to hold onto in the rough ocean in which most books sink as soon as launched.
ReplyDeleteIt's good you have a site that some of your books are easily seen. http://www.garry-kilworth.co.uk