Get the Message Across On-line!

By Aaron Price, Documentation Services Assistant (price@cc1.unt.edu)

Never before has it been this easy to be published. Throughout history it has always been hard to get enough resources to print your material. Whether writing on walls, chiseling in stone, or scrawling on paper, author s had to seek out the proper materials to get their message across. Readers had to have the wherewithall to get the author s works, which were frequently beyond their means.

Now it can all be had for practically nothing. If you have Internet access, you can be reading the complete works of Shakespeare, indulging in a critical analysis of Salman Rushdie's latest work, or even publishing your own magnificent works of art worldwide to millions.

With the WWW exploding in growth right now you don t even have to know any fancy programming languages or be an Internet Guru. All you need to learn is how to write in HTML, something any online author will tell you is a million times easier than actually writing itself!

Even before the WWW and Gopher, literary groups have been meeting on-line to share works and discuss poetry. Such literary E-mags , as they are often called, like The Body Electric have been around for years floating from one E-mail box to the next.

Here's how you can get in on the Internet s wonderful literary scene. Below is a list of resources on the net that help explore the world of literature in all its forms from ancient poetry and prose to modern science fiction and screenwriting.

Do It Yourself!

You can also publish your own works or even run a literary magazine on the Internet. All you need to do is check out some tutorials on how to write in HTML (see page 6 for a brief overview) and then you ll be ready to showcase your stuff to people around the world. All users at UNT with a Jove account can easily create home pages. Check out http://www.unt.edu/~dbateman/links.html. This page is maintained by our CWIS director Doug Bateman and has great easy links to HTML tutorials. If you don t have an account on Jove yet come by Support Services in ISB 119 and get one. It s free! We also offer free short courses every semester on how to write HTML pages if you prefer human instruction. You will be absolutely blown away at how easy HTML writing is!

The List O Literary Links

No More Excuses.

Take a chance. Show everyone what you re made of. It s easy and it s free(relatively), what more can you ask for? Are you ready for the big time? Do you have what it takes? Can I think of any more cliche's to throw at you? Let's have one final pun instead.

The time to publish is write now!!

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