Materialities of Writing

In this assignment, I'm not sure that I enjoyed writing with crayons - there were definitely pros and cons to it (but mostly cons!). I didn't like that I couldn't correct my mistakes by going back and erasing what I had written or editing - crayon is so permanent. It didn't help me come up with new ideas, if anything my hand got tired quickly and I became annoyed. I didn't write as much as I may have without the crayon. On the other hand, writing in crayon definitely broke the monotony of writing in Word or with paper/pen.

I imagine that a culture that solely used crayons as writing utensils would value creativity a great deal more than ours does. For example, the color a person chose to write in may be done intentionally in order to convey a certain feeling (for example, cooler colors tend to be calm or sad, warm colors can be angry or happy). With crayons you can also chose how you format your writing; you can write up and down, sideways, diagonally, in multiple colors - however you see fit. Such a culture would probably value originality in all these things.