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Originally Posted by gmw
This being the Writer's Corner, I thought I'd ask: Where do we fit in? Can anyone see a place for writers in a post apocalyptic world? Maybe fiction writers have to turn to non-fiction, journal keepers of the struggle to survive. How much new literary work is such a world really going to need or want?
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Storytellers and lorekeepers will always be valuable; writers whose skills are limited to books-on-paper (or books-on-pixels) will be in much less demand.
In a society with a lot less printing available, writers who can compose in song or verse will have a much easier time finding an audience; there's a reason the ancient sagas are written as poetry--because scansion and rhyme patterns let you memorize longer stretches than plain text.