Museum of Writing

If there were a museum dedicated to everyday writing, there would have to be multiple sections for the different categories of writing. In class, we have seen everyday writing in many different ways. We have seen love notes, to-do lists, secret notes, postcards, etc. The authors of these writings used everyday writing in different ways in order to achieve a goal. If I were to make a museum of writing, it would have sections that were divided by the purpose of the writings.

            Notes such as to-do lists and reminders serve to help the author achieve a personal goal. When we stick a note on the refrigerator that says, “buy milk,” we don’t intend for anyone to see or even give this reminder a second thought. The same goes for a list of things to do on any given day. While these forms of everyday writing seem pointless and unimportant, these simple notes show us just how important writing is to us. We depend on it in order to remember things, no matter how mundane they are.

            Another goal of everyday writing is communication. We communicate through writing everyday. Today, we utilize text messages for simple and immediate conversations. However, hand writing letters was also an important means of communication. This section would be broken up into these two categories: hand-written and digital writing. The hand-written section would emphasize how important letters were to our culture. The digital section would shoe us how out culture has changed, and how the writing has changed. The whole point of this section would be to show us how writing as evolved over the years, yet it still continues to be a large part of our lives.