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When writing is forbidden or undervalued, it becomes invisible. When family and friends and society and even the law say that our writing does not matter, we compose in hiding.
We delete our MySpace pages. We hide our blogs. We create anonymous logins to post on Wikipedia. We write only in word processor files that we protect with passwords and in diaries that we hide in the sock drawer. We write letters that we can never send and poems that we’ll never share in class. We learn that that only certain writing counts and that only certain people are truly writers. Our texts disappear, and so do we.
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Three Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Writing by Traci Gardner
