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DEBATE CLUB!
DEBATE CLUB!
Since there were some issues with my first thread on this, I'm starting over with this new one!
Okay, so here are the rules:
1. Respect the other side, even though you disagree.
2. No judging, please.
3. Feel free to suggest ideas!
4. Always ask for permission before doing anything that I might not be okay with.
5. There is no sign-up deadline. Even if we're already starting, you can jump in. Just make sure you clarify your position.
The first topic will be reading vs. writing.
Here is a list of people who already signed up, and where they stand.
Ellie - undecided
Pete the Trollslayer - undecided
Bookbug - reading
Forrest - undecided
True - writing
J.B.E. - undecided
Phantom of the Opera - undecided
Danielle P. - undecided
Corina - undecided
S.E. - undecided
SAVVY44x - undecided
pin name - reading
Nora the Singer (me) - writing
So, if you haven't joined or you see the word "undecided" next to your name, comment below! Reading or writing? May the best team win!
submitted by Nora the Singer
(August 19, 2014 - 6:02 pm)
(August 19, 2014 - 6:02 pm)
Not discovering one, but creating a BFF. There is a difference. Discovering a BFF is like me discovering the Series of Unfortunate Events. Or digging up the words 'a BFF'. Creating one is baking a cake, or writing a book. Plus, I would not use the term BFF. You have discovered a way to put your imagination into words. There is a difference.
Plus, why put a book in the oven?
(August 30, 2014 - 6:37 pm)
Ah, Masked Piester, but you can't read if others don't write. That just keeps going in circles, so it's pointless to try and go down that road.
Certainly, reading is important. It inspires other writers and are always there - stories that are handed down verbally can be easily lost, changed, or not passed on. Sure, books can be lost or burned, but not as easily forgotten, and more people can read them when they are in print.
But writing. Writing has more than one purpose. The Google dictionary defines "Write" as "Mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement." Writing can be used in more than one way. writing music, for example. That way, music is preserved for a long time. And code. Yes, you have to read the final mesage, but code is a way to make a perfectly sesible message, without the intention of people reading it. Only people with a certain key or very very intelligent mind can actually read it.
(August 30, 2014 - 6:28 pm)
at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by
mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.
Meh. I think we should have done what NONE suggested, Cs Lewis vs. JK Rowling. Nora, don't banish me, but I think reading and writing are too similar and thus going around in circles.
(August 31, 2014 - 8:26 am)
I'm not banishing anyone, but I did think you sort of dropped out of this club before, so I was just confused to see you posting again. But of course, I'm glad to have you back if you decide to stay. (:
By all means, quit if you'd like to. Guys, you don't have to stay if you don't want to! No one forced you to sign up in the first place. This is my thread, and we can't have what everyone wants; that's impossible. So you have two choices here: stay here and debate, or leave the thread. It's really simple; I don't know why you guys are having trouble making a decision.
This was only meant to be a fun thread. I don't want to battle with you guys over something so silly.
(August 31, 2014 - 10:06 am)
*arrives fashionably late* Excuse me, darlings. My carr1age had a problem with . . . pigeons! And timetravel! *sets cloak on rack and settles into a chair, skirts rustling*
I brought scones, if anyone would like some.
And I'm going to take the side of writing, being an author myself. After all, you couldn't read a book without someone writing it, now could you? Writing always has come first, and although it's a painstaking process with lots of weeping and throwing things at walls and siblings and ripping up paper and hair, it's also beautiful.
Creating those worlds, those peoples, the cultures and deaths and lives and pasts and species and plot points and jokes and oh just everything is so amazing.
*pours tea* Tea, anyone?
(August 31, 2014 - 11:21 am)
But you don't teach someone to write before they can read so it's not exactly a circle. And anyone that has been taught to read can, it's for everyone. Writing is only for the few that have the gift. So yes writing comes first but what are you writing for? For other people to read.
(August 31, 2014 - 3:46 pm)
I'll take some tea. Two sugar cubes, please, if you don't mind.
All right. *sips* It is true, pin name, that we write for others to read. But the true act of writing is superior, in my opinion, to the act of reading. Reading is, of course, one of my favorite things to do, but writing is even better. You get to do whatever you want with your writing.
There is only one path to take with reading: the author's path. But with writing, there are infinity paths.
(August 31, 2014 - 5:10 pm)
Hm. I must say, this is a very good point, Nora.
(September 1, 2014 - 5:54 pm)
Why, thank you.
(September 2, 2014 - 7:25 am)
You're very welcome. It was very well said.
(September 4, 2014 - 7:44 pm)
I'll go on the writin' side.
(September 1, 2014 - 6:29 am)
YAY ! More writers !
(September 1, 2014 - 12:48 pm)
This is off topic but- I did NOT do this at midnight . What the ... ?
If you're referring to time or date indicated, sometimes they are way off. We don't know why or how to fix it.
Admin
P.S. Then again, it was probably midnight somewhere!
(September 2, 2014 - 7:16 pm)
In reading, you don't really have to do any work. You just get immersed into another world. In writing, you can't really be i your world until the story is finished.
(September 1, 2014 - 2:17 pm)
YES BOOKBUG THANK YOU
(September 1, 2014 - 11:50 pm)