OK, so the stand out line from the Cory Doctorow interview I am currently transcribing is that ‘If content isn’t king, then community is’.
Doctorow is a writer at the heart of a community of technologists, sci-fi fans, passionate readers and probably many other vectors. Its a community cross-section he shares with a writer like Charlie Stross. But the community a writer gathers around themself is like a unique identifier, a literary fingerprint that shares elements with many others, but can and will never be perfectly replicated.
Writers craft the ideas that communities conglomerate around. In the paleolithic that meant telling the stories that gave a small tribe some sense of self in the wilderess that surrounded them. In the internet age it means being part of many, globally distributed communities. but the job is still fundamentaly the same – tell stories that show us who we are.
Damien Walter 
Hi Damien, we’ve met indirectly through Lydia. Your last two posts have inspired me to comment.
As a fellow writer, I can empathize with the space between things.
And this post, well the phrase, ‘tell stories that show us who we are,’ is the reason i write.
Thank you.
Keep that pen smokin’ hot.
clay
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