Community And Writing

    I define community as a group which shares common interests or resides in the same close-knit general area as each other. A community is where you know you are safe from the criticisms of the rest of the world and where you can place your trust into like-minded individuals. There are many examples of communities that can even range from the nuclear family-type community, to the community of those who raise awareness on certain problems in the world. A word I like to think of when I think of a community is the word “similar” because even though you might have the same goal, interest, idea, or place of residence, nobody is the same as anyone else. Therefore, “similar” may be a good way to characterize communities.

   When speaking of writing, it needs to be understood that writing comes in many different shapes and sizes and on many different mediums. In the way that writing is used within a community, letters are sent, books are made to remember a certain community in history, and journals are made to document the ideas and discoveries of members in the community. In the way that writing relates to communities, writing is communication and expression and relation, communities need all three of those elements in order to succeed within its walls. Writing is not a one-man-production, even when one person writes there are always experiences and others that change the perspective of the individual writer. I think that is the same for communities because there is no single-person community and a community needs more than just one person to flourish just like a piece of writing.