How Writing Can Help You Cope With Life

There are many aspects for my mind to conceive while reading the articles why I write by George Orwell and Joan Didion. There are many different factors in triggering an author’s imagination to come up with what they want to write, and why they want to write it. In most writings a purpose is not found before the writer writes, but often found after they decide to start writing.

The constant repetition of certain words throughout the entire piece of writing by Williams allows the audience to instantly connect with the narrator, which, in turn, allows the reader to create a more personal relationship with the narrator. The author begins each sentence in the essay with the words: “I write.” The narrator’s extreme passion towards writing resonates through the abundant use of a single but powerful phrase, “I write…” which causes the audience to interpret her tone as forceful and ardent toward the subject at hand. Not only does repetition assist in offering the audience a deep connection with the narrator, but it also reiterates the various reasons

Why do you write? Is it because you love to write or ,you have to write for a school assignment or etc. I know Stephen King writes because he loves it. Every day he is willing to block the world out and just write. He encourages others to be willing to shut a door and write in other words block the world out and get rid of distractions and just write your heart out. I found this quote to be interesting in his piece”When you write,you want to get rid of the world do you not?... When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds”(21,King). I love the message this sends use your imagination, express yourself through your writing.That’s what I hope to be able to achieve. On the other hand some writers write because they feel like they have

Throughout this semester, we were introduced to varying degrees of literary styles and themes. From the epiphanies discovered through American Realism, to the skepticism explored through Literary Modernism, to the conflicts of social conformity and individualism approached by a Post-Modernistic America and its writers. We have had the great opportunity of being exposed to individuals who questioned and pushed the boundaries of creativity and expression. Tennessee Williams was an author and playwright who balanced the enigmatic, macabre, and often cruel disintegration of his characters with a poetic grace. He became the keystone of a style that is known

Writing has the power to solidify ideas, for better or for worse. Putting things on paper makes it much clearer than anything you keep in your head. For example, when Skeeter Phelan stumbles upon a book describing all the Jim Crow laws of the South, they suddenly become much more profound—much more real. Skeeter had been exposed to these ideas for her entire life (“We all know about these laws”), but this was “the first time (she’s) seen them written down”.By writing them down, the rules became more powerful and more like actual laws rather than something that can be

In a letter to anyone, Lois Lowry recalls her childhood belief that “writers were creatures with mythical status: unavailable, inaccessible, perhaps dead” and her journey to discovering that writers are none of these things. Lowry explains that it had never occurred to her to see them as real people. Her letter was written to explain that authors and writers are just normal people. Lowry herself sat “chewing on a strand of hair” as she wrote the letter, with a stack of other letters addressed to her sitting on the desk. In order to illustrate her point that writers are just regular people, Lowry sets a tone of nostalgia, gives examples of her own experiences, and uses repetitive phrases.

In “Why I Write” by Terry Tempest Williams, she deliberates the development and affect of writing from the mind. Through the internal destruction of emotions, the reconstructing of the words, and the influence writing has in this world, Terry Williams causes us to reevaluate the meaning of writing and how people write for different reasons. In the introduction of the story, we are given an image of the setting, and an indication of where the story will lead. “It is just after 4:00 a.m. I was dreaming about Moab, Brooke and I walking around the block just before dawn.

I was born Sarah Jessica Taylor Caudill on a cold night in January, 15 years ago, at Baptist East. A bit funny, because I only go by Sarah when teachers force me to and I loathe Baptist East. I was named after an actress but I'm terrible at acting; I write. If writing didn't exist, I wouldn't either. If I couldn't make people feel things with words on a piece of paper, I wouldn't do anything at all. A world without words wouldn't be a world worth living in.

Creative writing is a difficult process, often prone to failure. Upon hearing my frequent complaints regarding the activity, my friends often ask me why I bother with the business at all. There are several reasons why I write. However, to say that there is any one specific explanation would be incorrect and would oversimplify the subject.

Sarah Lawrence’s advocation of creative and open development of study is a deeply involved educational approach, which not only academically advances students, but personally cultivates them as well. The school’s ingrained importance of involvement and communication between teachers and students assures me that my education would be nurtured and advanced at Sarah Lawrence. Writing has served as a deep passion of mine for a majority of my life, and has become apart of my immediate identity. I believe it opens up the mind’s understanding of any and all topics, and is a release of thought and opinion at an analytical and personal tier of thinking; this belief seems to be held by Sarah Lawrence as well, which enkindles my want to become a student

Writers like himself are not knowing what they truly want to voice and that is the beauty behind the whole creative process. He discusses early in the essay “that the writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do” and goes throughout discussing the technicalities of writing and the honesties along with it. He allows audiences to

Reading and writing have influenced billions of people all throughout the world, and for thousands of years. Language is one of the pieces that have moved humans so far above and beyond other species. Therefore, in first-world countries, it is almost impossible to find someone who has not been heavily influenced by literature. Books have influenced my life by giving me an enjoyable pastime and helping me decide what I want to do with my life. Writing has also helped me decide what I want to do in the future.

For the Love of Writing and Reading My love of writing saved my life. Even to me this sounds overly dramatic, until I begin to think back. It is further back than I care to admit. The memories there are haunting, and terrifying.

Writing is an inexhaustible source for sharing emotions and ideas. Robin Williams once said that “Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” What we put into our writing is a part of us and should touch others in positive way. Whether to inform, persuade, or entertain, it meant to be passionate. For most students, almost all of knowledge we learn in English glass is about either about boring, dull research papers we will have to write or lively, emotion-filled lessons to share with the world. The reader can take their guess as to this writer’s bias. William Shakespeare was able to capture that emotion perfectly in both his plays and sonnets. His ability to

Reading and writing are two of the most important tools in my life, because without them I would not have an education. They form the basis of a class; for example, completing a lab in chemistry would not be possible without following a written lab procedure. These two skills are taught at such a young age, and as education advances students must continue to strive to reach a higher level. I can remember in elementary school, we were always pushed to reach the next reading level once we had successfully mastered the one we were on. It was always a competition for my sister and I to be at a higher level, I usually won. Even though I was excelling in reading it was the complete opposite for writing. It is something that has never come easy