I choose to write with passion whenever possible. To me, writing without passion is like sex without climax. It is like Van Gough without color. It is beer without carbonation. It is empty. It has no feeling. It is cold. It is lifeless.
I write what I feel. I feel what I think. By conveying my thoughts with passion, I draw in the reader. My goal is to make the reader FEEL what I feel. If the reader feels what I feel with the same intensity that I do, I have effectively written with passion. I want the reader to react with emotion to all of my writing. I want the reader to feel that anger, that pain, that arousal, that I felt when I wrote. I want a reaction.
I don't want to see a reader put down my writing without saying something. I don't want it to seem like a waste of the reader's time and effort. I don't want empty writing like is found in technical writing. I'm not writing a user's manual for a microscope.
So what am I saying?
I want to be the best writer that I can be. But I want to be that writer on my own terms. I write using nonstandard language(swearing), odd metaphors, awkward wording, etc. because it is my writing. I write with the reader in mind, but my writing is a translation of my thoughts, therefore a part of me. If it is a part of me, I want to convey my own thoughts and emotion through the language that I thought it in.
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This is the age-old struggle that all artists face. We have to think about audience, and then make decisions accordingly. We might choose to say something in a different one, with different syntax, in order to engage our listeners. On the other hand, we might decide not to negotiate, that the writing is more for self. That's the cool thing about expresssion. We are ultimately in control. Choose your audiences for your papers this semester wisely.
ReplyDeleteThis was a pretty post.