Most authors chase after new and original ideas like a six year old chasing after their favorite candy bar, but Edward Bloor seems to have great ideas come crawling to him, begging, and pleading him to use them. Just
The cultivation of a person blends in with his/her understanding of stories
His gut is telling him become a writer but his teacher saying something else. So, he followed is gut and pursed writing. He began his career as a writer but had to start at the bottom. He would get nervous, when he had to interview
Typically, during the process of writing there is a rough draft that is revised, and often times the good copy has a very different outcome then the first draft, “and so completely to revise one’s subject” (6-7). Thus concluding, that the revision period does take time and dedication and is often one of the darkest times during the writing process, “in the winter of the
The article by Donald Murray entitled, “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” provides readers a better understanding of the writing process and argues that writers learn to write, by writing and rewriting. Murray also contends that writers must learn to be their own best enemy. Well, I believe I have this trait covered! I will confess, that I purposely saved this course for last, due to the number of years between my last structured learning experience and returning to school to complete a BSN degree.
Political philosophers are in disagreement regarding the perimeters of the ethical duty to provide international aid to impoverished countries. In his 1972 work, “Famine, Affluence, and Mortality”, Peter Singer argues that affluent countries have a moral duty to reduce suffering due to poverty and famine if doing so would not cause them to sacrifice anything morally significant or cause great harm. To illustrate his point, Singer introduces the hypothetical of a drowning child. Singers hypothetical says if a man was to notice a child drowning in a shallow pond then he has an ethical obligation to save the child even if that means that the man’s clothes would get muddy because it is much worse for the child to drown than to get your clothes muddy. Singer makes no distinction for proximity or number of people available to offer aid.
Furthermore, as Lamott says this and develops her connection with beginning writers who may feel discouraged or maybe even feel overwhelmed, by offering them positive reinforcement and words of encouragement. Lamott’s word choice also has a direct impact on the pathos she portrays in her article, simply by beginning with the title “Shitty First Drafts”. Her word choice is reminiscent to that of a normal friend, and this level of
Many times while I was reading this I was reminded of a saying I have heard before, “That doesn’t seem to be enough sugar for a dime.” He also described how being a writer had its’ downfalls too and that it
Anne Lamott 's essay, “Shitty First Drafts” explains to its readers that all writers, even the best, can have “shitty first drafts.” The essay presents the proper writing process from the first draft to the final piece of work. Her essay is intended to encourage writers who are in need of direction when it comes to writing and to teach inexperienced writers ways to become more successful in writing. Anne Lamott uses her personal experiences to build credibility, figurative language to engage the reader and provides the reader with logical steps for the writing process. To build credibility on her processes success, Lamott uses her own personal experiences.
The scene then changes to the narrator’s childhood, a lonely one at it. “I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories,” he says, “I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” The main narrative starts as he recalls a
There is inevitableness, a starkness that makes the point of the story unavoidable. The story has the classic unities of time and place and action. It begins in a small spot of beautiful nature, a secluded camp in the woods by a stream; it moves to the buildings of a California ranch, and ends back in the woods by the
The structure of the story graphs out the narrator 's life in chronological order. Each year is unique by presenting new information about the narrator 's life along with simple conclusions within that year. Throughout the years, a reader can draw
As time progressed, I realized that you write your own story. The individual creates his or her own
This starts off the beginning of Francie’s writing career and ironically, even though she tried to eschew from writing while attending college, she still ends up becoming one. Even though Moore wrote this story’s plot in a non-traditional way, she was still able to make it a great story, but when Francie tries to do the same thing, she is ironically lambasted for trying a difficult approach and is told by her English professor “Much of your writing is smooth and energetic. You have, however, a ludacris notion of plot” (463). As the story progresses, readers are able to see another ironic point in which Francie thinks she is an unsuccessful writer when Moore writes, “Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half believe anything and everything that is said of them” (466), but from an outside perspective, she is seen an accomplished writer, “Sooner or later you have a finished manuscript more or less. People look at in a vaguely troubled sort of way and say, ‘I’ll bet becoming a writer was always a fantasy of yours, wasn’t it?’
Bock (2006) uses Labov’s narrative structure and follows Gee in dividing the narratives into stanzas. This is a hybrid of analysis and Bock believes it is very effective and convincing since Labov’s narrative structure allows her to identify the framework of the narrative in order to dig out the notion of evaluation and in the same time, Gee’s structuring the narrative by grouping it into lines, stanzas and parts allows her to highlights the overarching narrative as well as the mini-narrative under the big umbrella of the narrative itself. Apart from that, through the story from Bock, Toolan (2006) believes story has no time constraint; it can be re-opened anytime by the speaker differently with the fact amended or
