"Why I Write" Overlook

I liked this article because of how the author described her life reaching the conclusion of herself, noticing that she's a writer. Not a great one, neither a bad one.

Like some of us…or perhaps most of us (who knows), she shows to us how she's like us in college: struggling with school, keeping concentration…because we look around ourselves in inspiration about the world around us, instead of our work, interested in things that are much more alive than some school work.

She also talks about how the structure of a sentence can shape the message to the reader. And that's very true; as a writer, I can connect to what she's describing to us in this article. With how you word the sentence, can make a dramatic change in how the reader will look upon it as.

Near the end of this article, when she talks about the 'Play It As It Lays' novel she was writing...I gotta say, I was lost about where she was going with it at first, with all those different ideas about her story popping up at random.

…But it seems to clear up in my head now.

When she started writing the story, she had only two pictures in her head, and she had to do speed writing with it, making it quickly and richened. As she starts taking us more into the story, she adds more and more into the description of where we were guiding to. She didn’t know where was heading off to; she just…let go. She would go on, talking about this woman, playing in her head as her imagination grew, taking the story along with her for the ride, coming to life, as her questions about this person grew more and more, building the story around this small startup from where she was not long ago.

A very good way to start where your story has barely anywhere to go.


…And that’s all I have to say. I’m not gonna lie, I was bored with it at times, but when I actually concentrated on ‘soaking in the knowledge’, it was interesting to me, as a writer, to read about.