Task 3

(Firstly, I just wanted to say i made us a logo for our blog, if you guys don't like it i'll take it down, now on to the task) 

Have you ever felt inhibited by the styles of writing practiced at school or university? What are and have been the pressures upon you to be a ‘good’ writer? What does being a ‘good’ writer mean? Do you think that formal modes of writing are more accessible to certain groups in society?

I have been writing on and off my whole life, writing blogs, short stories, poems and even the odd Limerick. but looking back on it now, Is any of it good? 

This is a concept i did not truly think about until starting university, until then my writing had always had the same point, the same purpose, to entertain. But something is something being entertaining, The same as it being good? A blog listing 10 ways to eat smarties might entertain you for while, but your never going to list it as one of your favorite modern works. 

To this end i tried taking one of my old short stories and re-writing it in a way that would be acceptable for submission as a work of university grade, and while the writing became technically 'Good' it lost almost everything i liked about it when i first wrote it. 

We live in an age now where anyone can be a writer through the internet, the written word has never been more accessible to more people than it is right now. millions of people writing millions of words every day. tweets about this, Facebook posts about that. but all of this is communication and not literacy, even in a world where people write everyday, the majority don't read or write beyond social media, making a more formal style of writing as alien as the written word once was to people who couldn't read at all. 

In my opinion this is creating a large selection of people, who can't appreciate something for its worth as a piece of written art. The proliferation of the written word is, Instead of bringing appreciation of the written word to a wider audience, somehow making the gap even bigger.