The Start Of It All

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.

First, I write to show my thoughts and my personality. It helps me show who i am and what i can set my mind to do. I constantly overthink when i’m writing and always think “this is not good enough, erase it,

The inevitable had happened; I, as a small child, was demanded to read. A little antisocial human being launched into a world of, at first, difficult words and lengthy phrases. While words and literacy were forced into my mind, I had reluctantly begun the adventure to enjoy and accept the art of literature. Later however, my hopes and dreams were crushed to pieces by a gruesome teacher with an interesting form of a so called “grading policy.”

Theory of Writing Writing is a powerful tool for communication and connection. As an extension and expression of the mind, writing is as much about the mental processes of the author as it is about the final marks laid to paper. As we write, we hold in mind our own thoughts on the work, anticipate the reader’s thoughts, and think both in concrete and abstract ways in order to accomplish the task at hand. Whether an academic research paper, a novel, or text message to friends, writing seeks to engage, persuade, or impress concepts upon an audience. Like language and other art forms in general, the practice of writing is ever-evolving and is subject to cultural and contextual influence, expectations, and conventions. Each writer holds a theory

Everyone knows what writing is to one extent or another, but we all have different definitions of how it should be done and varying degrees of seriousness about the art. We all have a process of writing, but each is unique to ourselves and our own experiences. Annie Dillard and Stephen King are two well known authors who have published many pieces, two of which describe how they view the writing process and let their readers get a peek of what goes on through their minds when they write. These two pieces are Dillard’s The Writing Life and King’s “What Writing Is.”

Writing is not a meaningless task, writers do not form a complex formula of words just because they can. A reason that writers have the drive to do what they do is because they have a compulsory force pushing them to share their viewpoint with as many as will

In my English 1010 class, I have learned to do a number of things through writing essays. I have written a Literacy Narrative, a Discourse Community Analysis, and a Writing Research essay. Firstly, I have learned to identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing. The

Writers always write for a specific reason. It may be something as general as writing for the sole purpose of passing a class or as intricate as attempting to change the way a reader views a topic or idea. The latter is loosely described as exigence by rhetorician, Lloyd F.

Flannery O’Connor, a great American novelist, once said that she writes because “I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” Writing is not just a torture device that English teachers bestow on students. We write for the ability to express ourselves and to set memories in stone for the future.

Ernest Hemingway once said, “It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Hard to argue semantics with a man who won a Nobel Prize in literature. From classic writers, such as Sir Author Conan Doyal and Edgar Allen

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

When a person composes their work, they allow their ideas to dilate into a story that takes their reader into a journey. The journey is not merely for the reader, but for the author. The author gain a writing experience from their journey that guides when they write other material.

Why I Write, by Mark Batterson, was a video that caught my attention because of the way he observes writing. Batterson sounded enthusiastic about writing for passion rather than just money, or being the best-seller. He make the viewers see writing from a new window, or maybe his words

In the beginning God create the heavens and the earth. At the time the earth was like a void, darkness everywhere consuming the planet, and God said four words, “and let there be light.” Then there on that planet earth God separated light from dark. He blessed the light and called the light day, and he cursed the dark and called it night. The second day has arrived. God then said the waters from waters, and called to the expansion of heaven. The third day came. God wanted to fill the gap in the water, so God created dry land, and made the gathered water seas. Now he said there should be vegetation on the earth. The third day has passed. God said let there is the expansion of time telling from the seasons, and let there be light at night