Writing is Thinking

The statement “writing is thinking,” to me makes sense. When one writes a piece, a poem, a reflection, etc, it’s their idea; it is their thought on a piece of paper or on a computer screen. When one writes, their feelings, their emotions, their perspective and their ideas are portrayed.

A writer writes about what they are motivated by, or something that affects them, something that instigates them. They write it out and they express themselves, they express what they think.

Even we, while we do school work, research papers, essay, it consists of what we think about a particular topic and we are writing about it. Therefore “writing is thinking.” However writing is not the only means of thinking. One can think without writing as well. When it comes to writing, the writer has to think, collect information, ideas, different stand points, and then he writes what he or she “thinks.”

Writing is a form of thinking, but it is not the only form of thinking. Different people have different strengths and weakness. Some express themselves better on a paper, and others people use other mediums to portray what they think, such as Art, instrumental music, gestures, etc. Art shows what a person thinks or feels. The painting speaks for itself. An example is when school children in Iraq were told to paint something, a handful of them drew pictures of war and violence. This is their way of expressing their view of their current state. An artist lets his paint brush do the writing.

Writing is thinking, but definitely not the only way.