Love, Authors and Winter Rains

It has become clearer to me just how far authorship has come in the last fifty years, or even the last two hundred years. Printing and writing has evolved from a need to spread news and information  to a highly fantastical, factual and fictional concept. Not only has the content evolved, but as mentioned above, authors have as well.
Back in the day, before 1710, authors never had a chance to claim ownership of their own design. If they wrote a novel, or play, or even a book on science, it was automatically fished up by thieves better known as pirates, who printed it off in different printing presses and claimed it as their own. Once the Copyright laws were placed authors really started to truly fall into the role of what an author is known as today.
Shakespeare had full ownership of his plays because of this law (thank goodness too) or he would have never received the accolades he does in this day and age. Charles Dickens would have found his work stolen all across Europe and even though his writings may have suffered some piracy back in the U.S. his rights to his work stayed long after he died. But with authorship came a new wave of criticism and restrictions that many in the past did not have to face.
Authors were subjected to lawful punishment for their writings at times and even ostracized by the community or people who did not come even close to agreeing. The printing of an author's name on a story also brought forth Focault's essay concerning "Author Function" and the analysis of how an author the man/woman and an author's idea are not interrelated.
This dilemma came along with Copyright laws and the romanticized idea of authors writing based on their own personal experiences.
Today authorship is seen a little differently, writing is a hobby many people have and many other bring to light through the use of Amazon or Nook technology. It is a User based interface, writing is, and it has spread like wildfire, making many name themselves authors and publish works big and small. Not exactly for the sake of money but for the sake of being one of the many names out there with a voice and an immortalized idea.

Where writing is going is still a question asked by many and answered by many more. But, I myself do not have the full answer and so I would like to end this blog in the spirit of today's holiday:


Happy Valentine's Day!
I hope you have many, many more!