The Wide Open Road of Prose

The Internet Cloud + 3 Writing Exercises

New hemispheres have emerged in today’s technology. One of them is the Internet “Cloud” and is the modern term for linking many technologies together. Like a cloud, the Net can't be pinned down - it's alive, unpredictable, and it has innumerable functions. The Cloud opens up the potential to link it up with other services such as we see now with the iPad, iPhone, etc. For many, not so savvy users, “this is still a dawning realization, but it's of fundamental importance. In many ways, “the Internet Cloud is a great global SOA (service orientated architecture) — still very rudimentary in many ways, but flexible enough to accommodate different levels of sophistication, and evolving fast." - Phil Whainewright

Today we are looking at the incorporation of cultural references into our work. Writers determine the kinds of cultural information they put into their fiction (non-fiction) in relation to time and place. Our writing can be compared to the same kind of linking as the Internet Cloud. (A non-physical world that is forever changing, transmitting, and re-inventing communication such as Bluesky, Substack, Fb/ X or Blogs.

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