Writing space to me means a work space metaphorically and actuality. It is where you are able to work in. Mentally, it is the mind space that you are able to get into to work or do something. The physical space is a place you can go to to do work in.
A particular writing space (or a reading space) can influence your experience of a text. Where you are physically and mentally impacts your experience of a text. The environment and how you are feeling in the moment can influence your experience of the text. If you are feeling one way going in, the text can wither help you through it or just make it worse.
The study of the changing nature of writing spaces will impact your own writing. There is no set one view. People see things differently. It can give you a different perspective of what a writing space is. Knowing a different view can change what you originally thought.
Reading Bolter gives us insight on writing in the late age of print. It is his view of the history and how it came to be what it is today. Knowing the past can help use with the future.
More to come.
Works Cited
“Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print.” Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print, by Jay David Bolter, New York: Routledge, 2001, rpt. 2009, pp. 1–13.
