Most likely, if you are a living breathing human being, a lot of your decisions are based on a few factors:
- your past
- who you believe yourself to be
- your experiences whether good or bad
- your greatest moments, and your worst
These factors vary from person to person, making us all very unique and capable of providing a perspective unlike anyone else’s if it’s felt.
The same goes especially for writers, every line, every sentence, and every paragraph must come from somewhere, and if you are a true writer, it’ll come from somewhere inside. As writers, our perspectives and experiences are the structure on which we build our rhetorical pieces.
They fuel our pens and pencils.
These perspectives are formed inside of us but are influenced by external factors that are in place to identify who we are. The outside context affords us the opportunity to discover for ourselves who we are, and we get to write about it. Since writing is a social and conversational art, a lot of these interactions and perspectives should be relatable and meaningful to others, using it as a craft to expose our true nature vulnerably and humanely but with grace.
“Writers can draw on written works from the past for a new contemporary writing purpose”
Our growth as writers is going to be through refinement and practice, of course, learning more and more about the subtle art of rhetoric.
However, the true driver of that growth will be real life, the experiences we share, the stories we tell, and the lives we live. Once those factors are nurtured and extracted we are able to enter into a new world of thought and composition. Our skills become sharper and polished by the file of examination and openness.
With that being said I think it is imperative for teachers to start implementing exercises that address the root of how we turn out the ways we do and how to process these events. Not only to become better writers, but human beings as well.
