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My Name is Nick Rotola, I play baseball at Eastern Michigan University and was born and happily raised in a little town called Wichita, Kansas. Wichita is actually a very big city in Kansas, but by saying "little town" I successfully am able to feed stereotypes of a name like Wichita and a state like Kansas.Although I did take and love Introduction to Creative Writing with Joseph Sacksteder here at the University, I will still admit that most of my writings stem from rapid consumption of comedy sitcoms as a young child, and by the things that I have always read and find interesting. Above other objectives in writing and rhetoric, I find the ability to produce interesting creative writing to be most important. Having said that, Im sure where there is a plethora of good writing on topics like zombies, vampires, twitter, writers block, and depression, there is always a man like me on the other side with an objective to make things more creatively interesting to the reader. For as much as it is portrayed as a back seat goal, no one wants to write something that no one wants to read.
Genre seems to be, at its roots, more easily broken down. Sacrificing density of writing for structural writing. Because of this structure we are able to define and divide these writings/stories into different "genres". We use these genres to organize and use our understanding and opinion to successfully apprehend bad writing in comparison with the good "praised" writings/stories. It is like the additive "the customer is always right"; and in this example the consumer is not only the reader, but the readers who will grow up to be writers.
Like the article said, everything used to just be literature. Good literature and bad literature quickly weeded out by the reader. But what about the differences in these readers? What about each reader and his own wants. This kind of adaptive writing is something that is hopefully achieved in Literary writing. A writer sacrificing structure to be able to write something of more depth and potential. Letting the reader decide for himself what the morals of the writings are. In exchange for a genre writing commonly loved by the public, there is much the same to be appreciated and respected by a reader challenged and excited about the density of an intellectually challenging piece of literature. So although structure may be as popular as ever, literary writing is still very necessary. If Twilight was the only book in the world to read right now then all readers would grow up to produce twilight like genre writing as writers.
There is also something to be said to me about something that can be read to elevate interpretation in reading and density of writing. This can be said about genre such as poetry. Poetry to me is an organization of writing designed to truly express how one feels. Being able to communicate indirectly. This is an essential part of my process in writing poetry. I prefer this genre because I am able to squeeze a life size message into as few words as I can. I also love to write short fiction. This to me is the easiest way to write simple, easy to understand, fun writing. It's a sad attention span reducing social-networking world we live in as writers but the point is that short and to the point writing is enjoyed more than ever. Especially, in my opinion, if you can produce true and effective underlying meaning; or just write something funny.
Nick Rotola
