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paintinginthewin
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Date: October 18, 2016 12:34PM
Just because you act one way at the temple, and anther way at a football game has nothing to do with you. Football players could go to the temple, they just have to modify their clothes and a few other things. Who they are in the moment, and how they express themself, is so, situational. I am more into trait theory myself. Or clusters of skills. That makes more sense, clusters of skills with systematic application, logically, for a given situation in a hiearchy of needs internally expressed to for a goal intent routine for the highest good.
Or were you talking culture? Or social tribal placement?
One things for sure though, finding an authors voice, is hard. Writing descriptive sequencial narrative in the second person has a tone. Writing personal biographical reflections can rhyme like poems or have rthym like rap, but writing a research paper like cited technical writing is formulaic, precise. Writing something persuasive begins with a grab or lead then circles into the topic.. its still all writing, typed by the same 2 hands and parts of the same mind.
Accessing different authoring voices or writing style is a big challenge
I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND when ______ an English teacher when she said sitting at the table, "___, I just love it seeing when my students get their voice (writing)" and I am like what?
One voice? Why do authors use several pseudonyms publishing differing genres then ? (But then she is an English major married to an English major, so limited! That lady has no frame of reference for other professions or majors or life styles, such as the company construction owner I knew who had a UC Berkeley photography and art degree but made money mostly in timber contracts, with diesel equipment, his pose was cryptic, his photos aching; with a forestry major who writes technical forest-biome or tree stand analysis and also writes breathtaking human narrative vignettes on a mid-century foothill town. ) She thought a person had to have one writing voice! Just like one career or one. College major or one blog. I think she`s full of it and barely professional and feel her view may limit her honors students. One voice! one writing voice for heavens sake! right?
There is no limit to a writers voice, a truck driver, a waitress at night, a dancer or construction worker, a tree trimmer, a lawyer all may well have a professional voice, but it wont be the same `voice` when they are tucking their 2 year old child or grandchild in at night, nor the same voice murmuring at a dear loves bedside. The nuances aren't the same, nor the intent, yet it is all part of our humanness. I feel, I believe, that the young English teacher speaking with me at that table, raised really really rich had limited perspective on heart and through which she idealized and wanted to limit her high school students to one assigned track for life in which they would write right & she, would have Huntington Beach, & Hawaii /she would own a creative voice. Others, not so much. I don't think the rich Hawaii & Huntington Beach lady respects the great voices among us average, employed, part time employed, retired, and disabled and just making do Americans, that she thinks that as an English Major she has the right to a voice & owns words...not the poet-logger, or the author living in timber camps writing nights, or narrative salesman, or florists daughter who writes soap opera dialogue based on her parents' customers.
One voice. really. & what is, personality, anyways. Enough of that.
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/2016 02:12PM by paintinginthewin.