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Monday, February 28, 2005
instantaneous thought
In AP English, a girl named Jessie Dunn never brought anything for our Poetry Fridays. She said she just didn't like to share. Beaudoin, our teacher, asked what we thought about this. Colin Cahill answered, "I think it's fine. I bet she's a good writer. Some of the best writers are those who write just for themselves."
So, this just ran through my head again. I've felt a new awakening again with my writing. Back when he'd said that, I hadn't agreed with him: I felt people should express themselves and not hide anything. But now I realize, some writers can't express themselves, can't share, because writing has become such a systematic process: someone's always telling you how to do it, and if you don't cater to the reader, then it isn't writing.
I realize more what Colin meant by what he said. Or perhaps, I've found my own meaning in what he said. That doesn't matter. What matters is I believe I am more one of those writers that writes for themselves, and not with the reader in mind. That is why, perhaps, I shouldn't share my writing to those readers who don't enjoy it. Or, more specifically, I shouldn't publish what I write, because it is not written with the reader in mind. On one hand, this is what I believe, but on another, I think: who cares about all these rules and ways they tell you how to write? Writing's my own thing, through it I am an individual. If some cannot understand or appreciate it, that's their problem. I'll still push my stuff out there nonetheless.
Whichever way I lean, someone will hate what I write and someone will love what I write and all forms of gray areas in between. . .so it doesn't really matter then. Writing written the way English classes teach these days writes with the reader in mind. . .but that reader could just as well hate the piece they read that is written with the reader in mind, and just as well love what someone who doesn't write with the reader in mind, but writes for themself, writes.
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