>--- Brian Charles Dauth <magcomm at ix.netcom.com>
>wrote:
>
> > Dear List:
> >
> > Justin writes:
> >
> > > But there are a bunch of problems. He's not doing
> > it alone.
> >
> > Well, I haven't seen anyone else in our apartment
> > typing
> > with him. LOL.
>
>No man ids an island. You're helping feed him, do the
>housework, making it possible for him to write.
:)
a great person to read on this is dorothy smith who talks about all the labor involved in the act of writing the book you're reading: the person who built the building, the janitor who cleaned the floors and emptied waste baskets of crumpled up paper, the person who fills the vending machines, etc. etc.
>Somone
>provided hgim with paper and pencils or a computer and
>printer. Someone will (he hopes_ take and produce his
>play. ACtors will act in it, directors will direct it,
>publishers will publish it, booksellers distribute it.
>If he just composed it in his head hge's still require
>a social divisioin of labor to permit him to do that.
>He's not Robinson Crusoe.
not to mention the language he uses to write, the form of the play (created and sustained over generations and taught through schools and other nonformal educational institutions), the abbreviations, symbols, customs, etc. used by playwrites -- these were created by others. and, even if you wish to buck the system and completely create something new, in resisting the traditional form for writing the play, you need tradition against which to rebel.
kelley
"We live under the Confederacy. We're a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks."
--Bruce Sterling