Convergences Intro.

The convergences text was dull at times, but I did pick out some very useful and descriptive material. The key terms that took me (and quite a few others) were the message, method, and medium.

As writers I think we often forget that our material should have a message to it. I personally get stuck dancing around a topic and struggle to get near the point I should have been making all along. The most important case is if we are citing an authors work, or trying to dissect what their message was. Being clear about the message we are trying to convey is crucial to the readers understanding of the text.

I believe that a writers method is what truly separates the good writers from the great writers. Countless times I have read an authors work and been amazed at their ability to tell a story in the way that they did. Its the dialect that grabs certain readers and makes the work special. The formality will reach one audience or another, and if your really good it will hit a very wide audience. This is clear in photography, film, music... along with other various art forms. It is just amazing how many ways there is to tell a story from an artists point of view.

It's difficult for me to talk about the medium. A medium can involve so many different things. What I took from the reading was that my medium as a musician is my guitar. It is my physical instrument that helps me convey a message. It joins together your method and message and turns it into a song, a form, an image- It defines how you complete your work and how you express it. Overall, convergences wasn't so dull after all.