Re(3): Writing is learning

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:02:34 PDT


i wrote
>>the idea that writing is learning is, to me, constrained.

michael writes
>
>It is lived experience. Don't you think that sentences like yours are
>silencing? That they undermine the lived experience of the Other
>(me)? (I have no clues about writing theory...) What do we do to the
>author when we say his/her way of experiencing is inauthentic,
>constrained etc.?

- i mean the "idea" is constrained - not the experiences. i've no clues
about writing theory, either .
all i understand about writing is from being a writer - poet, mostly,
fiction, nonfiction, essays,
personal journals, and so on.

sorry if my thoughts seemed silencing.
diane

"The world is too much with us,
late and soon..."
Wordsworth.
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