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Writing games are what skillful writers—and skillful readers—do within texts, within rhetorical situations.
Writers play with ideas and images, crafting them into language (i.e., creating prose or “prose styling”), finding ways to develop and structure them, and designing their appearance on the “page.” The overarching goals are · to create a piece that integrates all the writing games in order to achieve specific purposes with readers · to have aesthetic appeal and effects.
Readers play the game of understanding and appreciating all the games the writer has played in the text. A sophisticated reader understands not only the content but the nature and quality of the writing games: a sophisticated reader constructs both intellectual and aesthetic understanding. |