"There are somethings about coming of age in the twenty-first century that are quite difficult, challenging. Sometimes as writers we are literally caught bewteen the horns of a dilema. We see things that are, at best, difficult to put into words, and yet, we are driven to try. On the one hand is the vision of our past, from the onset of the written and soon to be printed word, in all it's limited forms, At the nether end of the spectrum is our soon to be immediate future- an era where you can really, reach out and touch someone. Not just in the sense of the metaphor, but the onset of the emerging multi-modal, multi-touch or natural user interfaces2 whereby the so-called virtual and physical realities merge ... "
"Somewhere, in between, there are roughly seven-hundred and seventy-three pages, two-hundred and sixty-five thousand, nine-hundred and twelve words that need to be written. One vision at a time ..."
The Writer's Dilema : The Beginning, The Middle, and the End ...
" In point of fact, The 'story' ( Istor'ias ) from the ancient Greek, has no beginning, nor can it be said to have an end. What we have here, in the manner of the Venn diagram, is a rather remarkable middle. ( As writers ) It is the middle which defines us ...
[ To Be Continued ]
2 See ‘Multi-Modal Multi-Touch’ and / or ‘Natural User’ Interfaces and Multi-Touch Systems I Have Known Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research, © 2007 -2009
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It shall be, even beyond your imagination.