Reading, writing: dying art forms
Nicole Demetrulias
Writing was last seen as a serious topic when there was no cable, no celebrity scandals, and no iPads to distract us.
The works of Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, and Arthur Miller are classics, but in today’s society are classified as boring; pushed aside for the “old-timers.”
People pick up a book or a pen today and are seen as geeks, as though reading a book is an instant “scarlet letter”. They are immediately labeled and their topic of choice shot down.
This needs to stop!
I speak as a fellow lover of reading and writing who wants this stereotyping to end.
Writing comes to us in all forms. It’s in a book we read, it’s in a song we love, it’s in a show we can’t delete. Reading, singing, and acting. Two of these subjects are cooler than the other, can you guess which ones? Funny how loving the dialogue of a show is more suave than loving the words in a book.
I love a good story-line as much as the next person but what’s the difference between watching it and reading it?
With each passing year, peer pressure and the growing art of media have made writing a lost art form.
Glamorous actors on our screens do not naturally come up with their scripts. There are actual writers making the dialogue.
Words have saved us from so many things, have kept history alive, have released so many emotions, yet we like to text more than turning a page. Books are not just something teachers assign you. I assure you they are much more interesting than that.
Tons of feelings go into writing and that just gets ignored. Writing is taught so technically these days that the enjoyment factor is sucked out of it.
Technology has much to do with it too. Short, robotic pieces have made flowing thoughtful ones look boring. We live in a fast-paced world but we have more time than we think. Besides, pages feel much nicer than a clunk of metal.
A book is more than a vampire love story. Read Hemingway. Music is more than money or sex. Plug in some doo-wop. When the time is taken to really enjoy something, the art of it becomes that much more brilliant.
