ABSTRACT

In the San Francisco Bay Area Writing Community the addition of more writers provided an advantage: more venues and their services could be organized with additional people involved. The importance of more strangers coming into the community defied the usual means for gaining success as a writer through acquiring social connections within segregated groups of people who can provide advantages. People tend to prefer a small number of protagonists they can easily remember, not only in stories, but in journalism and history. If a researcher falls back on a small number of prominent writers to describe the writing community of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 80s and 90s, what was working will be erased from history, replaced by the familiar version of social movements lead by key figures. Something hard to sustain will be lost not only as a community, but as a way to imagine what's possible when greater numbers of participants are regarded as important and unlimited participation replaces gatekeepers. This will make participation easy and more comfortable even for people who aren't socially engaging, writers who can contribute to the writing community if social obstacles aren't put in their way.

摘要

在旧金山湾区写作社区，更多作家的加入提供了一个优势：更多的场所和他们的服务可以组织更多的人参与。更多陌生人进入社区的重要性违背了通过在可以提供优势的隔离人群中获得社会联系来获得成功作家的通常方法。人们往往更喜欢少数容易记住的主角，不仅在故事中，而且在新闻和历史中。如果研究人员依靠少数著名作家来描述 80 年代和 90 年代旧金山湾区的写作社区，那么有效的东西将从历史中抹去，取而代之的是由关键人物领导的熟悉的社会运动版本. 一些难以维持的东西不仅会作为一个社区而失去，而且作为一种想象当更多的参与者被认为是重要的并且无限制的参与取代了守门人时会发生什么的方式。这将使参与变得更容易和更舒适，即使对于那些没有社交障碍的人，如果没有社会障碍，他们可以为写作社区做出贡献的作家。