Writing. What a concept. I have been away writing and modeling some new ideas for the past months. Please excuse my absence.
But it is interesting that concept drives writing too. Without a clear, focused and layered concept, writing becomes just structure. Stories and experience become just events. It is concept that connects what you write with the audience. It is what links the story or experience to their own lives. Events are always unique; they can be similar, but they are always unique. Though there can be hundreds of weddings in any one week, each is unique. Yet the concept of "love ever after" is a shared concept. The meaning behind events is what we share.
That is what concept captures.
In writing something, your readers don't necessarily read what is behind your words; they feel what's behind them. It is intuitive.
Communication doesn't just exist at one level. We look. We read. We hear. But we also feel. We intuit meaning. And it is there that concept is found.
Copyright, Winston Perez, 2009
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