Journal Uno

To me, writing is using a piece of technology (usually a pen, pencil, or computer) to reproduce physically an idea or message. The message doesn't have to be extremely thoughtful, poetic, or metaphorical. The message being conveyed only must be coherent to some audience (and the audience can be the writer who created the message in the first place). Writing isn't only found in stories in books, diary entires, or articles in Rolling Stone; it includes the reminders we scribble on the back of our hands and the incoherent drunk tweets that people send out at three in the morning on New Years day. All writing allows us a way of emotional expression and a way to say something when vocally repeating a message isn't convenient (it's easier to send a tweet or a text in a group message telling people you got a dog than individually calling everyone you want to know that you got a dog that you now have a dog).

1. Message: Every piece of writing has a message inherently tied to it and no piece of writing can exist without possessing a message. Even someone who opens up a blank text document and slams their hands on the keyboard to produce a random string of letters still has produced a written work with a message because they had a reason tied to why they created this random string of letters.
2. Physical: A piece of writing cannot exist soling in a person's head, there has to be a physical copy of a written work or else it's only an idea.
3. Creative: Writing is an extremely important creative means of expression for humans to share their feelings and emotions through as either a way of self-expression or self-reflection.
4. Perspective: Every single person in the world has their own perspective and view of the world and whenever they write something they allow this individual perspective to be expressed and shared.
5. Bias: Very similar to perspective, all people view the world from a their own bias and a form of their bias can be seen through the words that they choose to use whenever they write and how they organize their writing.