"Digital media destroy the ability to focus, both for readers and for writers faced with constant distraction. If, as Yeats said, "Poetry is the social act of the solitary man," then writing and reading in an age of creative-writing groups and Facebook updates have become "the solitary acts of social beings."
Meanwhile, the economics of the activity have also become inimical to production. No more bookstores, too many free texts, too many unedited texts, a monopoly such as Amazon driving down remuneration for authors. Now authors can only make a living teaching writing to those whose ambition is to teach writing to yet more writing teachers."
- Russell Smith
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