What the hell is digital writing anyway?

So "Digital Writing Month" #digiwrimo has been going on for two days now officially and I find myself spending a fair amount of my time writing by hand.

I spent Sunday afternoon writing with a pen that I found hidden in one of my bags, scanning existing typed and drawn artefacts from files on my shelves and printing them out on paper.




All of this 'hybrid activity' stems from a question that I have been asking: "What the hell is digital writing anyway?"

I can see evidence of this in a serious of tweets that I sent, or retweeted.

Pens are dead. Paper is dead. Handwriting is a relic #digiwrimo https://t.co/yh5atrXjal

— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) October 30, 2015

Does art happen on canvas or screen or in dialogue between artist and audience/viewer/other? #digiwrimo https://t.co/AMonYn75E8

— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) October 31, 2015

Wrote a post for #digiwrimo the old-fashioned way @DigiWriMo : Paper, Ink And Pen Into Pixels - https://t.co/iJfnNRXdLv

— Bryan Murley (@bmurley) November 2, 2015

And tweets that I favourited:

Thanks @kfasimpaur for a gift of breathe (happy6). #sdawpphotovoices #clmooc #digiwrimo pic.twitter.com/N6wIG9MBZR

— Wendy Taleo (@wentale) November 2, 2015

Digital brushstroke vs painted brushstroke. #digiwrimo pic.twitter.com/PDzGVr7chd

— ⓜҽϮ∆Ðⱥ†₳ՊʘʂĦ (@metadatamosh) November 2, 2015

This connects with work that I had been doing earlier in the year with the question of freedom in this post:
"This is freedom." 

It reminds me of Terry Elliott's animated handwriting that I have been seeing...

It then led to me starting to investigate this more systematically.

"What the hell is digital writing anyway?"

I have started a flipboard magazine to look into definitions of 'digital writing' which will benefit from your help here:
View my Flipboard Magazine.


I finally fell upon a new term: "Post-digital" and a very valuable article here entitled "What is Post-digital?" 

I recommend this article to anyone interested in trying to answer my initial question:

"What the hell is digital writing anyway?"

Heyho!

Digiwrimo has been only going on a couple of days but it is throwing me back towards Orality, Socrates, Printing Presses, Typing, and Punk DIY!

Not bad for a couple of days.

Am now off to post office.