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== Diary == | == Diary == | ||
=== Gnomon Chronicles origin story === | |||
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My answer to the social media problem is, everything I write that I truly value, I post to the Gnomon Chronicles. | |||
It's fair to say that the Chronicles have mutated several times. | |||
My original intent was to use MediaWiki as a kind of linked-up word processor, a medium where I would draft fiction for later print publication. | |||
Soon I realized that I like the wiki as a medium for its own sake, and began treating the wiki as the vehicle of my fiction. | |||
Then, since I was making absurd fictional statements about real historical people, I added (nonfiction) pages, which I treat as Wikipedia-like, straight-up encyclopedic, no spoofing. | |||
*Then* after a while I started writing work that is "non-fictional" in the sense that I am writing soberly about real-world events — say a movie review. I categorized these as fictions, and not (nonfiction), on the principle that by "fiction" I mean that I wrote it, the words are in my personal voice, and not the Encyclopedic voice. | |||
From there it was a short step to essays, poetry, autobiography, and pretty much everything I might care to say in public. | |||
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* [ Comment] @ Facebook | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Revision as of 05:46, 29 January 2021
Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday January 29, 2021.
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Diary
Gnomon Chronicles origin story
My answer to the social media problem is, everything I write that I truly value, I post to the Gnomon Chronicles.
It's fair to say that the Chronicles have mutated several times.
My original intent was to use MediaWiki as a kind of linked-up word processor, a medium where I would draft fiction for later print publication.
Soon I realized that I like the wiki as a medium for its own sake, and began treating the wiki as the vehicle of my fiction.
Then, since I was making absurd fictional statements about real historical people, I added (nonfiction) pages, which I treat as Wikipedia-like, straight-up encyclopedic, no spoofing.
- Then* after a while I started writing work that is "non-fictional" in the sense that I am writing soberly about real-world events — say a movie review. I categorized these as fictions, and not (nonfiction), on the principle that by "fiction" I mean that I wrote it, the words are in my personal voice, and not the Encyclopedic voice.
From there it was a short step to essays, poetry, autobiography, and pretty much everything I might care to say in public.
- [ Comment] @ Facebook