Writing Down the Bones

 

Writing Down the Bones, The Flesh, The Blood, The Being

Writing, in one sense, is a skill. It’s the shape that many stories arrive as, packaged in punctuation and paragraphs and perspective. There are rules to it, grammatical ones and structural ones, ones that differ from language to language, ones that are bent into arcs and acts and acknowledgements.

Writing, in another sense, is a medium of communication. The body language of the brain. It can say the same things that a mere smile can say, but it can also capture all of time and space and keep it alive, when those who first wrote the words no longer are. We do it daily, in text messages and love letters, on receipts and bathroom stalls. Shopping lists and TV guides and road signs and allergy information. Writing is speech, if the sound was turned off.

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