"...a force to inspire future generations to read, to learn, to write, to exercise their minds, to think, to philosophize, to carry something other than nihilistic pessimism or hopeless angst, to have some sort of aspiration to change the world, to hope, to try, to dare, to accomplish, to achieve... But do these even carry any correlation to writing?"
If everyone who put pen to paper had such goals the average public might be coaxed into putting down the remote.=P
Writing is life--not the imitation of life. It lives because you live and every word carries the taint of your life--every word is you. We may try to change ourselves, but it's more futile than building sand barricades. Inevitably, the sand returns to its accustomed form regardless of toil. Writing styles are similarily inviolate by devault. Learn to work with your paritcular style--not against it. It is something to be cherished as an extension of you.
It's interesting how you wrote the converse of my entry while still supporting some of my points--reminds me of some of those ap pract questions heh.
"...a force to inspire future generations to read, to learn, to write, to exercise their minds, to think, to philosophize, to carry something other than nihilistic pessimism or hopeless angst, to have some sort of aspiration to change the world, to hope, to try, to dare, to accomplish, to achieve... But do these even carry any correlation to writing?"
If everyone who put pen to paper had such goals the average public might be coaxed into putting down the remote.=P
Writing is life--not the imitation of life. It lives because you live and every word carries the taint of your life--every word is you. We may try to change ourselves, but it's more futile than building sand barricades. Inevitably, the sand returns to its accustomed form regardless of toil. Writing styles are similarily inviolate by devault. Learn to work with your paritcular style--not against it. It is something to be cherished as an extension of you.
It's interesting how you wrote the converse of my entry while still supporting some of my points--reminds me of some of those ap pract questions heh.
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