Thoughts about the literacy narrative...

I had trouble focusing on just one topic in my paper. And yet I feel like it is all irrelevant, because I'm not sure if I'm really answering the question... It just seems so vague! And how can anything shape a writing literacy? I suppose I'll find out that answer as I continue on writing.

I agree with Gabe. We are going to have a great spectrum of narratives - it'll be interesting to see what other people thought. The concept of literacy also gets a little shaky. I kept referring to the dictionary to make sure that what I described as literacy wasn't technically just a hobby or something. But I suppose literacies are apt to develop out of one's hobbies anyway.

I could not connect another literacy to reading and writing literacies. First it was the two, and then others came. Sure, I took ballet, tap and jazz lessons and played the piano for eleven years and the violin for three. What of it? Reading and writing were already present in my life in those time periods. The main point of my narrative is beginning to revolve around the circumstances and situations in which the literacies developed, rather than which other literacies developed with them. Then I wrote about how reading and writing created a few other literacies later in life. I'm also focusing on my family and how they helped to shape my literacy.

My problem lies in the creative aspect of this project. It's horrible, I know. Professional Writers in my track of Digital and Technical Writing have to be creative! But this is just too broad a subject, and my life is too boring. I need a narrowing of topics and a definite definition for literacy. I've heard literacy used in so many ways and different contexts that it never seems to mean the same thing. It's like a default term, a shadow word for bazillions of other words.

Here's a random query: Why does spell check think "literacies" is not a word?