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I recently attended a writing workshop. It was free and I believe you should always be open to learning new things. And I did learn something new, but it wasn't what I had expected. The people on the course were mostly artists of one kind or another who were trying to be creative about promoting their artwork. What I learned is that the people in that room who painted, sculpted and created didn't consider writing art. For them writing was something that served their art.
I'm not romantic about writing. It's something I do and enjoy. Writing is also a craft. By that I mean that those who write have a skill in using words to create a picture or an atmosphere. It also takes skill to take a particular phrase, such as truck racks or mother's day flowers, and build an article or a blog post around it. (I'm sure many of my fellow bloggers will agree.)
But writing is also art, in my view. This is because it involves the 'creation of beautiful or significant things', as Wordnet puts it. Words tend to live with us even when the authors are long gone. This is true whether you're talking about the Declaration of Independence or Macbeth. And it's also true here on WriteNiche and other blogging sites. Every day we read blog posts that touch us in some way; or posts that astound us with their beauty and thought.
So yes, darn it! Writing is art as well as craft, at least for me. Any thoughts on this from my fellow writers?
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