Misconceptions of what represents writing

https://themillions.com/2022/08/culture-shock-reassessing-the-workshop.html

 In contrast to the “pit self,” Jen explores a notion of self that is far more prevalent outside the Western world, the interdependent “flexi-self” associated with collectivistic societies. In this case, the boundary between self and world is “nowhere near so absolute. It is, rather, porous and fluid—a dotted line.” It would only be natural that this latter sense of self would inform the writing traditions of those countries. And so, the American workshop can be encouraging or stifling depending on one’s background. Because, as Salesses argues, the workshop is all about societal expectation. Being so firmly founded in cultural norms and ideology, it will not promote artistic rule-breakers or genre-defilers.

Being grounded in the social expectation of writing causes a stagnancy in the different forms that could have been explored. In this manner, the writers that advocate and/or conform to the standards of set writing/readership do add on to the prescription of the modes of writing. There could be the common misconception where ideas that exist are ideas that are set in stone and irrefutable.