Saturday 28 January 2012

Writing Is Painting

By John Mason


Whenever we hear the word art the number one thing that comes into our mind are painting, sculptures, music and dancing. But if we limit ourselves in these so called formal liberal arts then we'd be missing a lot of gorgeous and significant varieties of art.

An instance of art that's left unobserved for years is writing. There are 2 kinds of writing which are technical writing and independent writing. Technical writing is generally expressed through thesis, dissertation and argumentative research papers. In the strictest sense this cannot be an art because it follows a system and it is more technical than a type of expression. Independent writing on the other hand is what can be thought to be an art as it has qualities that can express the thoughts and emotions of a writer. As a writer expresses their emotion, a painter expresses their emotion through paint.

In independent writing it follows no system, the strategy, style and format is left to the writer. The writer can also freely select the words that he or she will be using to magnificently articulate his or her thoughts in the most creative way which is worth examining.

At the advent of the 21st century we saw the very sudden increase in numbers of free lance writers. The explanation for this is that folk are now more aware on the powers of writing, we have often heared the old chestnut which is that the pen is mightier than the sword as there's some truth to this stock saying. As we have seen in the history of man that a single writing can cause both war and peace.

The origination of independent writing is somewhat obscure due to the scarcity of documentary proof that pin down to its origin. But what is certain is that it is a product of literary evolution. Writing is a kind of art that any person can love, freelance writing is for all, and you do not have to be a rhetorician or a literary major in order to know the way to write. Same goes for painting, anyone can paint, as one can learn how to oil paint on his own, you just need to start! All you need to do is to pick up your paper and pen and express what you're feeling.




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