Article: Creative writing fast becoming lost art for most.(Local Opinion)

Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Paul Bodin For The Register-Guard

Are we becoming a society that has lost its connection to writing?

How many of us write daily entries in a journal or diary? Or spend part of our evenings or weekends on a collaborative family history, a book of recipes or a collection of poems? Who among us looks forward to drafting a long, rambling story to a friend? Or keeps up a running chronicle of our child's new discoveries?

How many of us write for pleasure or for meaning these days?

This isn't a matter of not having enough time to fit writing into a day. People easily could put a dent into their daily diet of media to ...

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