An author

[oggbashan]

1. So after writing the text above, you're an author? (assuming you hadn't written anytrhing else before)

2. How about a diary?

3. How about a post-it note saying "Dinner at 5"?

4. How about a line in a chat room?

5. How about your signature on a bank slip?

"Text" is such a fuzzy bastard. I think I'll stick to prose. I write advertising copy for a living. And magazine articles. Reviews, news and a column. I guess I'm by some definition the "author" of those, but if anyone asks me, I'm a writer, or people will ask me what books I've written.

I have numbered the points to make it easier to respond.

I see points 1,2,3 and 4 as the work of an author, but NOT 5 because that reproduces something already done. 5 could be replaced by a thumbprint or a PIN number and is a symbol, not communication. 1 to 4 have some thought and creative activity.

Poetry is also produced by authors, subset poets.

In my view all authors produce writing that is the result of thought and some creative process that communicates something from the author to the reader.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Geeze people. An author can be anyone who creates something original for print, music or (these days) electronic media. It's the "orignal creation" that matters, not the media.

 

[oggbashan]

Geeze people. An author can be anyone who creates something original for print, music or (these days) electronic media. It's the "orignal creation" that matters, not the media.

And you and Harry are certainly original.

What would the AH do without your unique perspective and your symbolistic AV?

We'd get ever so pompous and fat-headed.

We need you!

Og

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

And you and Harry are certainly original.

What would the AH do without your unique perspective and your symbolistic AV?

We'd get ever so pompous and fat-headed.

We need you!

Og