Writers and Readers

There are few writers but many readers. 

Many writers write one to one.  Email, Texts, Tweets.  Sometimes one to many using multiple addressees.  The level of creative content is low.  Informational content is variable. 

Among the writers that write in the one writer to many readers mode commercially some are writing creatively in short, concise target oriented marketing mode.

Academic writing is a significant category of one writer to many readers.  High in information content, variable in creative content.  Creativity mostly in style rather than subject matter since most academics is nothing new, just teaching old stuff to new generations.

Creative writing.  All writing is creative.  That was the line from a previous post.

Not true. Most writing is not creative if the definition of creativity is making new conceptual structures out of nothing.  Much of what is commonly thought of as creative writing is repackaging, re gifting, restyling old conceptual structures of things and their relationships.

Perhaps writing is analogous to Science, Engineering, Construction and Use.

There are few scientists, some engineers that apply science, many workers that construct the designs of engineers and we all are users of what is constructed.

The continuum of writing is analogous to the continuum of science to use.  Science is the leading edge, the discovery.  The creation of conceptual structure.  That is all we can as humans truly create: Logic concepts expressed in language to create structure.

Logic concepts that model the natural world. 

Logic concepts that model the conceptual world that we as humans create.  Social conceptual structures.  Sometimes founded on natural world stuctures, sometimes having little or no fundamental connections to the natural world.  Pure fantasy.  Things that cannot be true in a natural world.  A world where pigs can fly.