Post by account_disabled on Dec 2, 2023 4:45:19 GMT
The oldest form of writing, after all, is painting. A narration in images of what characterized the prehistoric world of our ancestors. The history of storytelling starts right there, from the images painted in the caves of Lascaux and which date back almost 18,000 years ago. What actually happened with that primitive form of writing? The mind of a man, of the author of the paintings, had created images, memories, sensations in the minds of other men. Ideas, then. Perhaps, precisely at the sight of a first painting, other men, embryonic artists, were inspired and contributed other works. The first literary trends were born. Writing is cognitively unnatural Writing is cognitively unnatural. Steven Pinker The psychologist, at this point, says something important about writing.
When we talk to a person, we can control Phone Number Data their expressions, the movements of their eyebrows, their gaze, their facial muscles, we know if they are an adult or a child, if they are an expert in the field or not. But with writing, Pinker says, we don't have all these advantages. We can only leave our tracks and hope to be followed. Here, perhaps, lies the true power of writing, a real psychological force, because it manages to capture the reader despite knowing nothing about him, her, them, we know nothing about the age of our readers. And even if we wrote for a reference audience, we would always be writing for a hypothetical audience, which in reality is made up of individuals with a thousand different tastes, with different cultural levels, with opposing characters and personal expectations.
Pinker calls it an invisible and unknowable audience. And it really is like that. But how much power does writing have when it manages to make that audience its own? Savor and decode other people's writing to improve The first step to being a good writer is to be a good reader. Steven Pinker And that's what we all know, what they say all over the world, that Stephen King has long held up as the only requirements for becoming a writer. But Pinker went further and wrote something profoundly true. Pinker started from language and its mysteries and made some considerations on the English language that I recommend you read. We can do the same thing with the Italian one. The past tense of “say” is “said” and that of “hear” is “heard”.
When we talk to a person, we can control Phone Number Data their expressions, the movements of their eyebrows, their gaze, their facial muscles, we know if they are an adult or a child, if they are an expert in the field or not. But with writing, Pinker says, we don't have all these advantages. We can only leave our tracks and hope to be followed. Here, perhaps, lies the true power of writing, a real psychological force, because it manages to capture the reader despite knowing nothing about him, her, them, we know nothing about the age of our readers. And even if we wrote for a reference audience, we would always be writing for a hypothetical audience, which in reality is made up of individuals with a thousand different tastes, with different cultural levels, with opposing characters and personal expectations.
Pinker calls it an invisible and unknowable audience. And it really is like that. But how much power does writing have when it manages to make that audience its own? Savor and decode other people's writing to improve The first step to being a good writer is to be a good reader. Steven Pinker And that's what we all know, what they say all over the world, that Stephen King has long held up as the only requirements for becoming a writer. But Pinker went further and wrote something profoundly true. Pinker started from language and its mysteries and made some considerations on the English language that I recommend you read. We can do the same thing with the Italian one. The past tense of “say” is “said” and that of “hear” is “heard”.