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7. What/who is a writer?
For expressivists, the writer is the lens through which the creative force flows. The writer's purpose is to reach inside toward those emotions, memories, traumas, and spiritual experiences which touch on the human condition. The writer is a translator and mediator between the emotional chaos inside and the constraints and expectations of the outside world. The most important thing which a writer must possess is a narrative voice in order to accomplish this translation from the internal to the external. Voice is the personal signature of the writer. Donald Murray compares voice to a musical instrument. Depending on the task, a different pitch or tone might be adjusted in the voice, but it remains distinctively the writer's signature in his or her craft. |