Michaela & Jessica

Writing is when a person puts pen to paper and words come to life. Writing puts meaning behind the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. Whether you are confined to one hundred forty charters like in twitter, or writing a novel everyone has something to say. Writing is an outlet for some and a chore to others. Writing lets people express their feelings and turn the feelings into a story where other people can relate.

Before computers, when we could not just Google anything and everything that we did not understand, people had to look at writing. This meant going through old post cards, letters, and journals of people who had the answers they desired. Now, some would say that form of writing is dead. Today, with everything at our fingertips, a new type has been born. From Google to spell check, no real research has to be done. Everything is online, and writing is much easier.

Writing is in all that we do in our lives. Think about your daily schedule. When you wake up, you check your phone and see you have three texts and two emails. These are both forms of the new type of writing in the twenty first century. Then, you open your phone and write back to the people who sent you messages. Checking twitter is always next on Jessica’s list. In the one hundred and forty characters, or captions on funny pictures, there are copius forms of writing. Facebook is first on Michaela’s daily schedule. There, we find pictures, videos, and statuses from her friends, family, and most of the time, strangers. On both social medias, we are not so much focused on what everyone has to say, like when we read letters and post cards, but more about who is talking and what they have to say about what we said. Writing, like everything else in our day and age, is just one more outlet for us to focus on ourselves. A selfie is considered writing because of the thought and plan we put behind it. That is one of the most common forms of “writing” and displays our culture’s conceded point of view.

We should study writing because that is how we learn history and it helps us learn what life was like back before the current day and age. Before there was actual ink, the cavemen used rocks to write. Everyone at some point has an urge to write, and the cavemen were the one that started writing. Their form of writing was drawing pictures on the walls in their caves that represented their family history. This is an important from of writing because the writing we use today developed from those pictures.