Thursday, June 26, 2008

Internet writing, is it safe?

There were two drafts preceeding this one which were to be published but then somehow got lost prior to being published.

So here it is. My site provided unique original content. When one placed the words "Seagull Chekhov " in any search emgine, my site published September 2001 was within the top three to six listings. For some reason, although this was not exactly money in the bank, I did get a small dgree of satisfaction from this seemingly unimportant distinction.

I guess maybe this could partly expalin why Tripod/Lycos never quite became a household name.

http://thewriterscafe.org/

Why We Must Write.

Those who can- do, those who cant teach. Those who cant teach...write!

The above phrase sort of just came to me as needed. You start creating a blog with a particular idea in mind, a seed. Then one wants to find his audience, the people who this idea was meant to resonate with. Then you simply you hope that you dont go too far off track or get hopelessly distracted.

When you have a gripe such as the following, the words simply start flying right out of the writers mind on to the page.

Like everything else in the world, there is very little justice or truth to be found on the internet. When I wrote my original piece about " The Seagull by Anton Chekhov as performed on Saturday August 18, 2001, at The Joseph Papp Public Theater in Central Park, New York, NY by Stephen C. Sanders "http://thewriterscafe.org/tiger_bythe_toe/

A piece of prose tediously written directly into html using word pad or just a plain old text document as my html editor over a period of several nights/day/weeks; only to one day wake up over six years later to find the entire site removed by tripod/lycos with no warning or explanation.