Thinking and writing

I do think when I am writing. If I do not think while doing it, the result would be a shame, I mean the words would be upside down, the coherence would be a riot and hardly the only one who will understand it, will be me. On the other hand, if I do not write I cannot realize how my thoughts are seen in a physical way, in a different space from my mind and that is why I believe that what it is not written, does not exist.
Thinking and writting are tightly connected because if you do not think while writing, the text result would be incomplete and unuseable, and if you do not write your thoughts, you are wasting valuables ideas that will help you to grow up in the way you think and to improve the way you write.

Writing in English, Spanish and French

HOW WE WRITE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

For me, writing in French is like a long, difficult journey :  when you finally arrive (and bear in mind you might get to a place that is totally different from the one you started out to) there is a great deal of satisfaction yet somehow you are unable to forget everything you have been through.  At the same time, maybe that is not such a bad thing because you don't write to forget something you write so you are able to remember.

Writing in English is similar to swimming in a huge Olympic - sized pool:  I know how to swim and I´m not exactly afraid but it is still a struggle to plunge into the deep end.  I know that pools are made for diving and the main thing is to find the courage to do it.

I can compare writting in Spanish to an expedition into an underground cave .  I´m always aware I have to carry some kind of light with me because I´m entering my deepest self  (It´s wierd, but my "English self" is more rational and less emotional and my "Spanish self") and there might be beautiful things there but it´s impossible to avoid the darkness that is all around .

Of Writing and Thinking

Writing is how you express what you think, is the way to avoid that your ideas get lost in this infinite universe. Writing and thinking are correlated, if you don´t think, then you have nothing to write about. Right now i´m feeling kind of lost, I have the flu and I think that it is affecting my thinking so, at this time, I´m having a lot of trouble wrinting about thinking. Am I being understood? I even feel like I´m not writing what I´m supposed to be writing, but that´s okay, I´ll be writing some more and I promise next time I will not get off the subject.

Writing in my languages

 Writing in English for me is like talking and just expressing myself freely cause it comes naturally because although I live in Cali-Colombia, I was raised in the United States since i was 3 years old and lived there until i was 14 and i don't feel it hard to do. I really enjoy it.

Writing in Spanish is like my first time riding bike, scary and didn't want to fall. It's a real challenge for me ,but I've gotten better at it, at least that's what I hope.  

Writing in french for me is like travelling to china because i almost never do it. I need more studying and learning to be able to feel confident and comfortable writing in french.

Writing for me

Writing in Spanish for me is like being a very mad dog that does not know how to bark, that is to say i nother way, being a native speaker that does not know how to use his language.

Writing in French is like a familiar feeling that you do not want to think about, I mean, is like thinking about similarities with spanish and then realizing that it is still more difficult for you. 

Writing in English is like a damp bedroom which is still cozy despite of its humidity because even if it is something that looks terrible or avoidable I feel comfortable being there.

• For me, writing and thinking are related because when we write, we need to think, We just cannot write without thinking. However, when we think we are not awared of punctuaction, orthography, grammar, connectors, etc. IT means, when we start thinking about something we just think and think, sometimes, for long periods of time and we don´t make pauses. Eventhough, we start thinking about ´this´ and we end up thinking about ´that´, we don´t follow a specific order as we do in writing.

•  For me, writing in Spanish is like riding a bicycl, easy and fun when I know where to go or when the road is known and nice but difficult when the road is unknown, confusing and boring. The same happens in writing, when I am not sure about the topic I am going to write, I don´t feel confortable with it or even worse when I don´t know what to write about.  
• Writing in English is like getting to know someone, I start discovering a lot of things but suddenly something I don´t know how to deal with comes out.  That is what happens sometimes when I am writing in English, choosing a correct word or sentence is a struggle.
• Writing in French for me is like dancing, if my dancing partner dances good, I enjoy it but if he doesn´t, I´m like ´OMG I hope this song is over´. So, if I like the topic I´m writing about, I enjoy it and it goes pretty easy but if I don´t like it, it is difficult and I want to finish as soon as possible.

Peer Review

What Is Writing?

"Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother."
(Richard Peck, writer of young adult fiction)

"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
(Molière, playwright)

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
(E.L. Doctorow, novelist)

August 30, 2012

First written work:  Diagnosis.

WRITING AND THINKING

Writing and thinking are two processes to create knowledge. They are very difficult to handle and closely related.  These processes are as close that without one it is frankly impossible to talk about the other's existance.

Just talkng about writing, we can say that this is a way people can express their ideas or their mindsets.  Therein lies one of the tough questions to answer: Why is it so difficult for many of us to put in written what we think?  The answers are so complex as diverse.   Perhaps thinking is faster than writing ,  maybe due to the organization process of our ideas that  we have to develop, or maybe because when we we write we are thinking at the same time about the people who are going to read us, and we get concentrated so much on wrinting in a way righ-enough to be worth of being read by someone else.

On the other hand, we have thinking what seems to be an easier process for most people, but it is not always that way.  Very often it happens that while trying to come up with a good idea to beging a written project or an oral presentation-- I have heard some of my peers say:  "I cannot think in anything good enough", "my mind is blank", or "I'm blocked".

In what to me concern, I believe that given the fact that writing and think are closely bond, there is no way we can conceive them isolated; rather, we ought to assume and treat them as a whole what will ultimately allow us to express our ideas or thoughts in a neater way.

Writing Is Like

- Writing in French is like falling in love, sometimes you don´t actually know what is it that you are doing, but ideas start to flow very easily and everything starts to look more beautiful than it has ever been. I like writing in french, there are so many grammatical structures and so many ways to express yourself.

- Writing in English is like being in a job interview, I feel like at the beginning I can´t find the right words, but once I find them you know that you are doing well.

- Writing in Spanish is like trying to impress a girl, you receive so much outside pressure that sometimes you fell insecure, but when you realize that you are perfectly capable of doing it, things come out exactly as you want them. 

Writing in English
 For me writing in English is like playing with a Lego, I have to find the correct piece in order to build the figure that I need.

Writing in Spanish 
For me writing in spanish is a torture, because I feel pressure for writing in a perfect way, so all the time I think in the opinion of other people about my texts.

Writing in French
For me writing in French is like a must, because I only write in French in the university and It's always to be evaluated, then I have to think all the time about grammar so I forget the content. It's like to do a beautiful sculpture but empty.

Writing and thinking

When I was in the school the teacher said to me and my classmates that writing was the mean way to communicate thinkings and human feelings. Now that writing is not about communicate, It's about true. All the time we have to lie in order to belong to something or creating fake realtionship with other people. We have to smile and agree in diferent situations and practices that we don't really like it. But when we write, we can express our really feelings, we can aorganize the reality how we want it.