Metacognition: First Semester

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." ~Cyril Connolly



I was really having a hard time figuring out what to write for this blog. Did my thinking change? Obviously it must have, in some way it least. But how? I've decided to explore the one biggest change I can identify, rythm in writing.

At first, I thought that Beat by Beat was cool and interesting, but not very important. It seemed to be extrapolating a little too much. Who really thinks about this when they write?

I was forgeting about voice.

When I started to think about voice, I realized that this whole rythm thing was how writers developed their voice. The rythm of the words, the way they make you say them inside your head, it all created that thing that a lot of people can't explain when they say that they love someone's writing.

Their voice.

I've sort of prided myself since I was young, as I've said before, on my ability to put my thoughts down on paper, my ability to paint a picture of myself with letters and commas and periods. I'm not great at math, I can't eloquently explain electronegativity or moles like some of the kids in my chemistry class can, but I do have a voice.

So, I began to expiriment.

I began to use what I had learned about the rythm of writing more and more in my own writing. I began to see the beats. My writing began to effortlessly flow like never before. Finally, I liked writing! I had never disliked it before, but now it was almost magical. This probably all sounds corny, but it's true. It was almost like an apiphany.

Writing was music.

In my last Metacogntion blog about the Kite Runner I wrote the same sort of thing. But it's because it's that revolutionary; it has affected me that much. There's really nothing else to say.