What Writing Is.

Blog post #1

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

Writing is the inescapable conversations that make no sound. Scrolled on walls, emboldened on signs, slapped on labels, writing is a core component to everyday life. Not only is it inescapable, writing comes in many different forms called genres, and if that wasn’t enough there are different mediums that you can write with. Thought made preservable to the eye, through characters being arranged to form words. It’s immortality, a magic spell that can raise or crush armies, it’s both heaven and hell. The scope of what writing is and capable of doing is vast. To ask “what is writing” seems simple but it is very complex the more you think on it the more comes to mind as to what writing is. For writing is all these things and more.

Successful writing, is writing that has fulfilled its purpose. For a fictional novel entertainment would be its purpose, for the dictionary reference would be its charge. Now, fulfilling its purpose isn’t enough to make writing successful alone. Preservation is another mark of successful writing, for that is the whole purpose of writing in the first place. Think on this: everyone has had the most fantastic idea jump into their head, right? What do they do with this idea? Well, they write it down to save it, and the beautiful thing about writing is it doesn’t just preserve it for the writer but for anyone who can read. Organization is the final mark of successful writing. The reason for this is that organization makes reading or finding information easier for the reader.

I like to make up setting and character and just write details about them in my writing. Though the writing I practice the most is calligraphy, the process of embellishing words and characters is relaxing.

5 Key Terms

• Genre
• Organization
• Media
• Thought
• Preservation

We learn from this text that it is all too easy to get caught up in what we think we know, that we don’t stop and just look around to see how things really are. How we try and keep pace with the world, but don’t realize where the world is headed as a result. Throughout his speech Collins raises a good point that with all this advancement and rushing around we lose something. Our ability to memorize and to be present in the moment is greatly diminished by the speed we chase. I say that this text is successful, It’s successful because it made me stop, look around, and to think. Fulfilling the intention of Collin’s which was to make the audiences slow down and to be aware.

Genre I would keep because it helps narrow down the content of writings .

Organization I wouldn’t change because writing is closely associated with organizing.

Media I think is becoming more prevalent with the introduction of digital media and people moving away from traditional medias.

Thought I think I could change because it is a pretty broad concept and could be applied to most subjects.

Preservation is still a core component to writing, so I would keep it.