Liminal Wordsmith

Geoffrey Sirc talks about composition like it should be a “happening,” and honestly, as a writer, that makes perfect sense to me. Writing feels better when it’s an experience instead of an assignment. It works when it’s a little messy, a little playful, and connected to whatever is going on in real life. After all, life imitates art, right?

Jody Shipka, in Toward a Composition Made Whole, builds on that idea. She shows how writing is never just writing. It’s the tools scattered around us, the choices we make without thinking, the small habits we bring into the process, and all the normal life stuff that shapes what ends up on the page.

Put together, their ideas make writing feel alive. Something we participate in and connect with. Not just something we turn in because we have to.