An interesting Consumed column in today’s New York Times Magazine discussing Lewis Hyde’s “The Gift,” which was originally published 25 years ago, and delving into creative expression and raising the question of if its endurance. Does it need to take into consideration the external market forces to succeed? As a fiction writer, this sometimes creeps [...]
Creativity has been on my mind a lot lately…okay, it always is. But I just returned from a couple week’s “vacation” where I had planned to sit idly and ponder my creativity, blogging and The Write Elizabeth. When I got back and started reading around the Internet to catch up with a world outside the [...]
This is a modified version of a post that originally appeared on WOW-WomenOnWriting. I started re-thinking the idea of building a creative idea off of someone else’s work–does that rise to the level of plagiarism? If not, what does? Or should we be more relaxed about plagiarism? The same week I read about a German [...]