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Writing Essay #1 for Writ 340
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MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: RE: DATE:

Writing Always Brings in a Piece of You 1/15/20

Every idea that goes unsaid is an opinion of value that was worth hearing but was lost. This thought crosses my mind all the time, and I always think, if that idea was just written down there would still be an opportunity for it to be heard. I see most writing this way, it all starts as an idea, a thought that flourishes into some kind of story, a thought that is always born out of one person’s unique mind. And that is what makes writing personal, a form of selfexpression. Richard Peck says, “Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.” Yet, there is not one without the other, communicating your ideas goes hand in hand with some sense of yourself. Hence, the diary perspective. The Diary Perspective Writing for me has always been the art of words, being able to speak to people by seeping into their consciousness and challenging the ideas and perspectives that are deep inside is powerful. Writing and the reading that follows is an interaction, an event, and an intermingling between the ideas of one writer and the mind of an audience. Writing, in this way, does communicate something you wanted to express. And so, we land at selfexpression. Let us consider it this way. When you are writing on paper ideas that you want to share, it becomes a book, and when you are writing ideas you wish to keep hidden, it is thought of like a diary. Funnily enough, one of the greatest diaries of our time, The Diary of Anne Frank, has been renowned worldwide, a work of great self-expression. All those diaries that have been left hidden, still always have the opportunity to be heard, once the author feels comfortable sharing. Thinking of it this way, makes every diary a potentially great work. Playing Defense I do think many would disagree with me, arguing that there are many works where authors who have written stories are completely disconnected from the text. I also can remember the countless times my IB English teacher has told me, do no connect the author’s personal life to the story. Maybe it is a bias of mine, but it is hard to fathom how your artwork does not at least express a piece of you. Nevertheless, I have always been taught to write freely, with a personal voice, but a strong perspective. Writing has no boundaries to me and in the future, I hope my career does not limit my desire for creative writing. I hope one day I can express myself in a book. If I want to defend writing as self-expression so definitively, how can the only writing I do be for emails, letters, or memos for work? Once we expand writing to be more self-expressive, rather than be limited by rules that chain us, more empowering works will be produced and shared....