If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
What Writing Means … to me
One of the workshops I attended at the National Writing Project’s annual meeting in San Antonio was about a new venture called the National Conversation on Writing. A group of mostly college professors is trying to change perceptions of writing in the public mind and one of their ideas to collect vignettes from people about what writing means to them. In particular, they would like to have a collection of short videos, in which teachers and students and others talk about writing.
I decided to give it a go, sort of as a rough draft approach, and recorded some of my own thoughts.
What about you? What does writing mean to you?
Peace (in reflection),
Kevin
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Kia ora Kevin
How do I know what I think, till I see what I write?
Catchya later
from Middle-earth