Writers are no longer just writers but, in H.G. Wells’s term, “originative intellectual workers“.

Finding a top-gun agent or publisher is all but impossible these days unless you subscribe to the block- and bonk-buster paradigm. On the other hand, the originative intellectual worker quickly masters a skill-set allowing proficiency across crafts and technologies. The OIW emerges on both sides of the track, as producer and consumer. In blogging it’s almost impossible to separate the two.

~SYNTAGMA

I’d like to be an originative intellectual worker. It sounds both romantic and omnipotent at the same time. I’ve been trying to find more about this reference all day, but haven’t succeeded. Has anyone else heard of “originative intellectual workers” before?