Week 04: Writing

The reading text for this week entitled, 'Writing' discusses the concept of writing regardless of whether you physically are grasping a pen and jotting down words or not. The suggestion mentions that you could be writing whilst performing daily tasks like swimming or walking to the shops and in this time you could be mentally concluding a paragraph of your last chapter.  Also mentioned in the article is the notion that sometimes the pen takes over and you do not necessarily have to think. 

The text also suggests that by introducing daily practice into your writing (such as riding a bike, cooking, event such as war), you can advance your writing skills and make a piece of text sound more interesting. This can be achieved through the use of metaphors and by adapting the rhythm of your everyday life to the writing piece. 


In the following statement I related the determination and violence of war to a debating situation. 

'It was my turn to take control and steer the ship. This was a challenge that I could not cease unless I provoked the opposition through mentally disabling him. I wanted to leave him defenceless in this war of words. As I stood at the podium, I maintained eye contact with my allies.' 

By comparing the challenge of responding and rebutting in a debate to battling a war, I have attempted to figuratively evoke more of an emotional attachment from the reader. 

I believe the chapter adequately opened up a writing technique that I could implement in my works as it attempted to explain that the writer should always be thinking and that sometimes ideas just flow off the tip of the pen without much thought.


Bibliography:
Game, A. & Metcalfe, A., 1996, 'Writing' in Passionate Sociology, Sage, London, pp 95-105.