Writing

For our first essay we were assign to write a character analysis that relates to us. So I chose to write about How to Become a Writer  from Self help written by Lorrie Moore.

       I, sometimes like reading but writing can be difficult. So I can relate to the advice that was given in the 

story, like trying to be something and exercising imagination. It's not really a character in the story but it teaches you how to build character in the process of writing a story with yourself and in the actual book. 

      The author starts the story with some tips that I use, like being patient and not quitting. What's hard for me is writing from personal experience. I think people usually hate this task because it's probably a task that someone made them do, I certainly do. Usually people don't write about themselves unless it's in a journal and diary or even a blog. So when someone makes you write about yourself  it can feel like they're forcing you. My new challenge is to not think of writing as giving away my own information, but making a character that gives information to the reader and putting a piece of my own information in that. 

       So I definitely my character that I can relate most to was talked about in how to be a writer. So, if you change the way you think of writing when you are writing something, it it possible that may actually enjoy the experience of writing as a whole, a whole lot better. I think it's possible if you try. 

Character Analysis

These past couple of weeks in class we've been focusing on character analysis with characters in the stories we've been reading. As a class we brainstormed on issues/topics we could relate to from the stories. We had a board full of topics, so we had plenty of topics to choose from to write about. Last class we wrote our rough drafts and peer reviewed each others papers and made corrections. We discussed what each of us were writing about and how the topic we chose relates to our personal lives.  Discussing our papers may help some people or may not improve their writing, and others may catch an error that we don't see ourselves so it benefits having another eye looking through it. We were suppose to have another day of peer review, but due to the snow we couldn't. So, I guess we'll continue on Monday.