Thursday, July 23, 2015

Would Ernest Hemingway Write Web Content?

Ernest Hemingway was the epitome' of the 20th Century Alpha Male. The New York Times declared that he was "the most important writer since the death of Shakespeare." The question is, being someone that lived every single day to the fullest, would Hemingway sit at a computer and write web content if he lived today -  for himself or others?

In my estimation or best guess, I have to suppose that Ernest would "modernize," (no pun intended) and that he might even try writing and self-publishing some e-books on topics his publisher might not be all that keen to distribute. (I do imagine it might take "Papa" a while to adjust to web writing, considered bad writing by traditional Modernist standards.)


Still, contemplate for just a minute what this man could or would have written with computers and smart gadgets, versus obsolete typrwriters and yellow pads and blue books with pencils and ink pens. What quantity of output would Hemingway have produced? Hmmmm.

The other side of the coin might me that Hemingway was more of a quality-oriented fella as opposed to someone like Steinbeck or Shakespeare or Tolstoy that wrote in large quantities. 

Either way, for my part, I would love to see what Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Pound, and the other Expatriate Writers would do in our age. If they could only get Miss Stein started writing-on relevant keywords, their work would rank extremely high with Google....

~ Jimmy Hall (404-580-1501) is a professional writer specializing in business plans, resumes, web content, and other business-related copy. He also writes literature, and is a big fan of Hemingway and Paris, France...

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