For years I have talked about writing. I have read about writing. But this blog is the closest thing to writing I have done. I suppose its rather like my teaching experience. I talked and read about education, but until I finally had the opportunity laid out before me I didn’t take that step.
So, what about writing. They say,” write about what you know.” It’s clear to me many people know far more than I do about everything. What do I have to contribute. However, when I read, I find most books are someones version of something that has been said in many ways many times before. Therefore it seems adding my voice to those thousands of voices would not be so bad.
It seems to me a story contains at least two versions. The author has a view and the reader has a view. Sometimes, I think the written word takes on a character of its own which surprises the author and the readers. I’m not sure what that means, except from my reading of “Sophie’s World” in which the characters in the book had a life. Do we bring characters to life each time we read a book? Are we inadvertant world builders?