Based on her article,
“Writers on Writing: Family Ghosts Hoard Secrets That Bewitch the Living,” Amy
Tan and I share a similar outlook writing. Sometimes it takes a sucker punch,
like grief, to bring new light to what may already lay in front of us. Grief,
or other revelations can help writers to approach their thoughts and ideas from
new directions. The beauty of writing is it always starts from within, so much
like the evolution and development that a human being goes through; our
internal writing processes do much the same thing. The words can take a darker
turn, or bring to light new meaning in a person’s life.
Since taking this course,
my perception of a social media writer’s perspective has changed somewhat.
Initially, I envisioned them all as blood thirsty and looking to take any sort
of action to gain publicity and quick money, much like the tabloids. In
actuality, social media are different outlets that welcome a variety of
writers, for better or worse. For the writers that want to get right to the
point or don’t have much to say, there’s Twitter. For those who prefer to tell
stories through pictures, there’s Instagram. For those who could just share every
waking moment with the world and not care, there’s Facebook. Material can be
just as factually based, or not, as that in other forms, like books and
magazines. I guess social media just make it that much easier for a writer to
find their genre and thusly, their audience.
