Can writers, those who think of themselves as purveyors of ideas through words, unite and focus their considerable and obvious powers of persuasion on One Idea? That is the Question.
What does that even mean, writing for One Idea?
I mean writing to advance an idea that is not necessarily your own idea. We read a lot of writers, and they are all coming from their own point of view. Some write productivity pieces, how to be super productivity tips they have sussed out, structured and published. I like them. They want attention and recognition for their wisdom and cleverosity. And they want money. Ditto for most categories from poetry to politics, coding to capitalism, we all write to advance our own psychological, economic and spiritual condition and that is a good thing.
We are wordical ants, looking everywhere, intensely for chaotic fractals of life that express the collective thought so precisely, they capture the Times. We do this over and over. We are consciousness entrepreneurs, making our way with words and words alone. So much alone.
Indeed we sit alone thinking about what we could write that They would Like, words that would vanquish the fear of isolation and loneliness and sate our craving for agreement and attention. We do it for others, for ourselves, for anyone who will listen. But no one tells us what to write, that…