Summary Of The Inspired Vs Real Writer

The Inspired vs The Real Writer by Sarah Allen’s main purpose was to try and change the way people view writers. They are seen as these all knowing articulating gods, when really, they are people too. They struggle just like everyone else, and any work worth reading had some stress and effort behind it. Allen stresses that just because someone is a writer, doesn’t mean they have always been good at it, or even liked it for that matter. All writers have experienced writer’s block. All writers have had to learn how to format their work. All writers had to learn. This is the main point Allen is trying to tell the reader. She emphasizes this by giving examples of writers that have experienced this, such as David Bartholomae, but she really focuses

I thought I was among the few that experienced writer’s block and struggled to learn how to correctly structure and articulate my thoughts. Allen’s The Inspired vs The Real Writer was overall very eye opening for me. It helped me realized that not every writer loves writing 100% of the time. My favorite parts of the article were where Allen told of her own experiences whilst trying to begin to write. I liked these parts because they added a personal touch behind her argument that helped it come across as more believable. Adding her own experiences provided a genuine counter argument to the common misconceptions people have about writers, and this was the most influential and persuasive part of the article, to me. This ties into previous readings we’ve had because they all stick with the same theme that writing does not come easy and you may not even realize you like it. This is illustrated in Writing with Super Pencil by Dylan DuLac. DuLac loved writing comics as a young child, but as schooling mindlessly controlled his writing and limited it to boring essays he didn’t have true emotion behind, he began to lose interest in it, until later in his life when he writes this piece. Basically, he hit a few bumps in the road when he was younger, but he eventually came back around and began to write again. This ties in well with Sarah Allen’s work because it was not easy for him. He didn’t like writing in school,