WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience. We talk about writing and reading in the context of 'new and old' media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.
I'm Di and I live in Surrey, south of London. I'm on my third career now - writing for the web. My first career was as a biomedical scientist. My second move was into consulting, eventually specialising in organisation design - and now? I've been freelancing for a year after taking a year out to study web journalism.
My freelance portfolio is shaping into a mix of organisation consulting and writing for the web. I also belong to an online writing group with the aim of improving the creative side of my writing. We complete set exercises every few weeks and this takes me off in many new directions. I've even started a sci-fi book (5,000 word done and 95,000 to go!).
I like working through the web as a writing medium because it's more flexibile than print - and I'm constantly amazed by what people create. Working in layers appeals to my natural tendency to jump about with ideas...and then I appreciate the discipline of trying to tie them all together (or not!).
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