Something's Amiss with Writing Myths

With the advent of the vast and ever-growing internet writing has taken a definite turn toward the everyday usage. As Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media grow popularity writing one's thoughts have become a second to second ordeal. Our society is progressing into a world that is constantly calculated, quantified, and recorded; a dystopian future might be in our midst where what we say could be rearranged or deleted to fit into the plans of 'Big Brother' or the world might someday accomplish complete literacy in all cultures, which would just advance us a step in our mark on this planet's history. Whether the writings that all these cultures create be good or bad the writings are still good because all writing is a process of evolution.

The fact remains that there were always be 'bad' writing, there always has been, no matter how many people can and write. There will always be useless information floating out there in writing form that really serves no purpose. One, I suppose, could argue the definition of 'bad' writing and going along with my idea of the evolution of writing in an upcoming literate culture the writing will start out great, to that culture, but through the years of evolution of the writing the culture will look back and consider their first writings as 'bad' writings.

Writing myths are a mental block that thwart potential writers, which can be anyone, from developing their writings any further. The myth that writing is just good speech put down on paper is totally false because if one were to take any poem and use it as a speech it would make either A) absolutely no sense or B) confuse the audience, which is exactly the opposite of what the ideals that speech is supposed to accomplish. Along with this multimedia and social media craze this myth should die; it should've died years ago long before the internet. It should have never existed. Writing is some much more than persuasion, it is emotional and informative.

If we want to help dissolve this myth and other myths of writing it is evident that we must teach what writing is really is about. If these myths still exist that means somehow somewhere we are teaching these false ideals, find those and we solve the problem.