"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword"
Writers have an extraordinary potential to change people's minds and to create revolutions. Reflect upon some of the radical changes that have been wrought by such texts as The Declaration of Independence, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Communist Manifesto. What issues or topics are you interested in exploring in your writing? What changes do you feel are worth making?
I believe that words, if used correctly and effectively, can be used to express one's feelings and beliefs. Within a story or text, the writer focuses on description, creating colour in what they write, making it easier to visualize what the author wants the reader to get out of it. Without this key element to writing, the visualization becomes more vague and harder to see what exactly that the reader is trying to tell us.
Now, what I'm interested in the methods that writers tend to use in their writing style, seeing where they get their ideas from. There is a question that might be asked, "Did you receive this idea from someplace or from a personal experience?" The mind behind the writer is something vast, possibly complex in general and a useful tool to the terms of which it is manipulated. I believe that from a story based on personal experiences, we can use it as a backbone or a spine to what we are willing to create, using it as a base which we can rearrange and change it up for a better written format. That is something i want to take a deeper look into, along with trying out some of the ideas on given themes in class.
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