should everyone write and without exception?

[cacian]

i was just reading somewhere else in a different forum someone saying
i quote:

''just because one can write does not mean they could or should''



any answers most welcome.

[Ecurb]

We should all write only that which is worth reading.

[cacian]

We should all write only that which is worth reading.

a very nice sentence.
so you agree one only writes if one can?!

[Ecurb]

One need not limit one's writing to the artistic or emotionally resonant. One might, perhaps, leave a note that merely conveys information, like William Carlos Williams:

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[free]

i was just reading somewhere else in a different forum someone saying
i quote:

''just because one can write does not mean they could or should''



any answers most welcome.

Why shouldn't anybody write who wants it and feels an urge to do it? If somebody doesn't like what is written, nobody is forcing him or her to read. That is my opinion.

[cacian]

One need not limit one's writing to the artistic or emotionally resonant. One might, perhaps, leave a note that merely conveys information, like William Carlos Williams:

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

is this in praise or against?


Why shouldn't anybody write who wants it and feels an urge to do it? If somebody doesn't like what is written, nobody is forcing him or her to read. That is my opinion.

absolutely in fact it should be a right of passage everyone should write by law if it has too,only kidding, but it sounds tempting.

[papayahed]

I think it should be amended to say:

Anybody who enjoys writing should write, but those that can't shouldn't push others to read it.

[Pompey Bum]

I think it should be amended to say:

Anybody who enjoys writing should write, but those that can't shouldn't push others to read it.

Or perhaps:

Those who choose to should write, understanding that if made public, those who choose to may tidy their bottoms with it.

[Carousel]

I don’t understand the question, if anybody wants to write that’s what they do, oblivious of what anyone else thinks. Some write as a form of self therapy, it helps me to get my feelings down on paper etc, so it doesn’t really matter what others think of the finished product.

Some will write broadly on one subject, usually themselves; broadcasting their own pseudo philosophy to anyone they think is interested in their own take on life.

So on, and so on, but a few, a very few, will have the expertise to enthrall their readers.

[cacian]

I don’t understand the question, if anybody wants to write that’s what they do, oblivious of what anyone else thinks. Some write as a form of self therapy, it helps me to get my feelings down on paper etc, so it doesn’t really matter what others think of the finished product.

Some will write broadly on one subject, usually themselves; broadcasting their own pseudo philosophy to anyone they think is interested in their own take on life.

So on, and so on, but a few, a very few, will have the expertise to enthrall their readers.
is not that a good reason to push writing to the top so that everyone is a bit of an expert?

[Pompey Bum]

Some will write broadly on one subject, usually themselves; broadcasting their own pseudo philosophy to anyone they think is interested in their own take on life.

Careful, Papayahed! I think he's talking about you. :)

[Lokasenna]

One need not limit one's writing to the artistic or emotionally resonant. One might, perhaps, leave a note that merely conveys information, like William Carlos Williams:

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Would it be terribly cynical of me to suggest that William Carlos Williams is a perfect example of why not everybody should write?

[Mohammad Ahmad]

writing isn't just hobby, writing needs competence and skill and everyone is educated can write in the field he loves but this isn't always a fundamental truth because writing has its own criteria, thus we see someone writes poetry other cannot even a verse or can write only in a certain field but on other fields he can't

[Ecurb]

Would it be terribly cynical of me to suggest that William Carlos Williams is a perfect example of why not everybody should write?

I actually love Williams' poem, although I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's the simplicity of a merely factual note that hints at a complex relationship. Is, perhaps, the relationship also "delicious, so sweet and so cold"? Or perhaps it is the notion of putting a simple note into the form of a poem -- evocative like the collages in postmodern visual art.

The poem also hints at the Adam and Eve story -- was the apple "so sweet and so cold"? Does the transgressor need to be "forgiven"? Is it possible for whomever was saving the plums to offer forgiveness? Does the sweetness and coldness suggest that the note-writer (who might be a child or a spouse) is offering thanks, or suggesting a worse transgression (in that the note-reader won't get to taste the cool sweetness)?

[Marbles]

If you want to write, satisfy your urge, go ahead and write, give your thoughts the form, put them on paper, or blogs in these days. But know that everything that's written is not fit for publication.

[livi]

If you want to write, satisfy your urge, go ahead and write, give your thoughts the form, put them on paper, or blogs in these days. But know that everything that's written is not fit for publication.

I like this idea!
I find writing extremely cathartic but some of the things I write are never meant to see the light of day! Purely personal!

[Ecurb]

But know that everything that's written is not fit for publication.

That's not true! What about "War and Peace"? Or perhaps you mean "not everything that is written is fit for publication."

[Marbles]

Or perhaps you mean "not everything that is written is fit for publication."

Yep, this.

[papayahed]

Careful, Papayahed! I think he's talking about you. :)

You may be right. And now I will expound on my response in this short essay entitled "The Ups and Downs of being a Papaya in a Grapefruit World".

[tonywalt]

You may be right. And now I will expound on my response in this short essay entitled "The Ups and Downs of being a Papaya in a Grapefruit World".

*furiously scribbles down "the ups and downs of being a Papaya in a Grapefruit World" as the title of his long awaited but vaguely interesting autobiography*

[_Joe_]

I think everyone should write. Self-expression is healthy and cathartic. The point is, just because technology nowadays allows you to share your writing with a wide audience at virtually no cost to you, it doesn't mean you always should.

I eat everyday, but don't feel the urge to post photos of my food for everyone I know to look at. Kind of the same deal...

[Scheherazade]

You may be right. And now I will expound on my response in this short essay entitled "The Ups and Downs of being a Papaya in a Grapefruit World".Where and when can I read it?