EXERCISE: Writing As a Lifelong Skill (1)

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Original Posting: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:40:28 -0500

Let's take a look at some thoughts from Writing As a Lifelong Skill by Sanford Kaye, ISBN 0-534-22218-8

Up to Now: Your Writing History

(Page 13) "Actually, what we mean by 'writing' is not so easily pinned down....  Does writing require an audience?... What accounts for the personal drive to record life in visible, lasting marks on a page, whether or not anyone else ever sees them?  To settle on your own definition you will probably need to sort out the different functions of writing as you have experienced them in your own work and in your reading."

So, for a first stab at the historical venue that is you, what is your definition of writing?  What does it mean to you?  What does it do for you?

Go ahead, think about it!

(Fair warning -- I'm going to send a series of these little exercises, all based on this book.  Let me know if you enjoy them, okay?)

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." Alfred North Whitehead