There are many different types of intelligences that are used in the writing process. The uses of some of these intelligences are more obvious than others. The intelligences that are frequently used in writing are visual, spatial, linguistic, logical and mathematical, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Individuals can utilize each of these intelligences in differing ways and to different extents. The ways in which I use these intelligences is not necessarily the best way for everyone, or even for myself, but that can change at any point in time.
             Musical intelligence, which may seem useless to the writing process, is actually very helpful. For example, poetry is a form of writing often dependent on meter and beat. Someone who utilizes a strong musical intelligence can write poetry that fits a specific meter or beat with ease and grace. I am not much of a poet, but can read poetry well because of my strong musical intelligence, which I tend to exploit mainly when playing percussion. I do use it when reading and writing to find the natural flow to the words. Also, musical intelligence is used in the composition of music, which is, in fact, a language. Thoughts and emotions can often be expressed more easily in music than in spoken words. Music conveys a message to the listener from the composer, as does written language; however, music can express these messages across language barriers, which cannot be traversed by one spoken language to another.
             Logical and mathematical intelligence is one not commonly associated with writing. When one thinks of mathematics, numbers, formulas, theorems and postulates come to mind, but certainly not words and sentences and grammatical structures. On the contrary though, sentence structure is logical and mathematical. In chemistry, one often must write equations showing the elements and their products. These equations or formulas must be balanced and have certain parts in the...