Will the Next Hemingway Emerge from an Online Writing Group

Online blogs" that make news and become news is the new hot button word for todays headlines. But what about a craft thats been around as long as theres been language? More and more writers are turning to online writing groups to find exposure, education, and enlightenment. What kind of stories will this new generation of web worked and educated tell the world? Is the creative writing degree a thing of the past, or will it be replaced by hard-working authors who use the net to mentor the next generation?

Delft, Netherlands (PRWEB) March 6, 2005 -- No doubt the Internet is changing the way information is exchanged. Just ask those folks tuned to the hip and savvy political and news blogs. How is the Internet changing art, more specifically the art of writing? Online writing groups used to focus on the display of work only, constructive criticism wasnt a requirement, and only fluff was.

Now there are online writing workshops staffed with professional writers from all genres and disciplines whose goals are to improve newbie writers and more experienced writers alike. Is this a bad thing for the world of creative writing? What kind of face will fiction be looking at in the mirror during the next decade of Internet educated writers?

Most, especially in the University realm probably would say its a bad thing and that theory, critique, style and structure wouldnt be taught; the writer depending instead on unseen and unknown disembodied Internet voices to guide their writing. Thats quite a hangover for those University folks.

At Enter the Muse, a progressive and experimental online writing community started in April of 2000 in the Netherlands by a transplanted Arkansan, core elements of the crafts are stressed, but so is individuality and discipline. One only has to look at the creator of the site and the moderators to know writing can be for everyone, especially those willing to work. From outspoken gay writers, experimental and hard working poets/editors, code poets, high school seniors, masters students, left-wing nuts, right-wing nuts, and just your typical South Dakota eighteen year-old, Enter the Muse welcomes all of these writers into their group and workshops their writing, encouraging discipline and the craft.

Will the next Hemingway come from Enter the Muse? Maybe. Those University folks would probably say no way-but odder things have happened. Blogs are breaking news around the world. Online writing groups are helping to make writers, everyday. Enter the Muse does it with hard work and voodoo.

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