Conceptual Writing

For this week we were asked to read multiple writings from different writers, but the one that seemed to strike me the most was Kenneth Goldsmith's "Sentences on Conceptual Writing." Goldsmith delves into the idea of "uncreative writing." I found this idea to be pretty interesting because I never thought of writing as being "uncreative" before. Goldsmith writes that when using the uncreative writing form, a writer makes all of their plans and decisions for the piece beforehand and the execution of that piece is automatic and done without too much thinking. I found this intriguing because I know within my own writing I often have an idea when I start out but by the end of the piece I have gone off in a different direction completely, so it is interesting that he formulates all of his writings around his immediate plan and sticks to it.