In Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts," the author writes that in order to write something of good quality one must write a first draft that will never be a work of perfection. Lamott further states that there is no instance of a mainstream or notable writer that sits down and writes a piece of perfected, written work on the first attempt. Lamott also explains the writing process of emotional doubt, draft sequencing, and the effort that is put into a quality piece of written work. Lamott emphasizes the fact that in order to find overlooked or obscured details a writer must muddle through countless body paragraphs, often irrelevant information or thoughts about a particular idea, to find the “real” direction of a written work.
The author uses frequent plot twists, sensory imagery, and expanded moments to create a story
In order for a novel to have more deepfelt meaning or to convey the true meaning rightfully an author needs to use literary techniques. For instance, in the novel In Search of April Raintree written by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier used several literary techniques. Basically, to convey the life story of Aboriginal people, specifically speaking Metis, from childhood to adulthood. The protagonist April Raintree suffered through life obstacles. However, her sister Cheryl, did not handle the situation well.
The author has a unique way of placing the reader at the scene with his unique description of the setting around him. He also has a special way of describing the characters
Prompt #8: Describe the author's craft: What was good about the
Many authors use literary devices to illustrate a tale they are attempting to tell they employ literary devices so that the readers may relate to the problems and emotions of the characters. Jamaica Kincaid illustrates the complexity of her own circumstance through her own literary devices. Kincaid builds the plot and helps the audience grasp the intricacy of Kincaid's predicament by using literary devices including internal conflicts, details, and locales. Kincaid also used strategies like extreme repetition and imagery to highlight the complexity of the narrator's predicament. Kincaid illustrates the complexity of the narrator's condition by utilizing a literary device like internal struggle.
In his essay, “Becoming a Writer,” Russell Baker explains how something you love can turn into a daunting task. Baker explains that while he loved writing, and even considered himself a writer, he still dreaded his English classes in High School. He felt the assignments were dull and procrastinated to complete most of the assignments. This continued until almost all the way through his third year of High School, towards the end of the year Baker was assigned to write an informal essay based on a list of topics. The night before the assignment was due Baker finally pulled out the homework sheet and started perusing the list of topics.
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.
Authors craft. Is a good way to tell a story in more detail. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Is a book about a teenage girl Katniss Everdeen how fights for her life in the area for her family, friends and Peeta. The hunger games has three major author craft moves.
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper is a memoir about Dr. Michele Harper. In this book, she discussed the ways that systemic racism finds its way into the healthcare system. In Chapter 5, Dr. Harper tells a story of a young Black man who refused to be examined after police brought him to the hospital. Had Dr. Harper not stood up for the young man, his right to refuse treatment would have been violated. This story is an example of how Black people's rights can be violated in healthcare.
Ultimately, the central purpose of an author’s novel is to engross the reader by writing in a genre and movement that is appropriate to the topic of the novel. Kurt Dinan engages
Many environmental influences helped shape women's status within society and shaped their dependency, regardless of race, age, marital status, or place of birth. Women, whether free, indentured, or enslaved regardless of race faced oppression through laws that shape the treatment of the different classes and women of color. However, enslaved women faced a far worse oppression in many ways. The continued oppression was an everyday struggle for enslaved women, and created an environment where they fought frequent objectification due to gender and race. The molding definition of gender in regards to race will determine how different races interact and coexist.
She uses metaphors to one, make the scenes in the book seem more grand, and also
Authors use literary devices to convey deeper or hidden meanings within their texts. These implied meanings help the reader better understand the background and theme of the text. Poems and Short Stories use a bulk of literary elements because they specifically never come right out and say their themes. In the short story “Where are you going, Where have you been?” author Joyce Carol Oats uses the literary elements of Imagery, Allusion, and Foreshadowing to portray her claim of being careful about what you wish for.
In the three texts each of them tackled the different natures of writing by concentrating on a given topic, creative non fiction as a new writing genre, the distinction of writing fairy tales to fiction, and writing as a tool to move about the social hierarchy. In Susan Lara’s ‘Creative Nonfiction: The Fourth Genre Comes of Age’ she introduce to its readers a new literary form known as creative fiction. She identified it by mentioning its previous incarnations such as literary journalism, interpretative journalism, etc. News stories as we all know contains brief factual accounts and events based on a particular subject of interest.
