Writing can be very intimidating for people like myself. I never know where to start or even have a clear image of where I want to go with my piece. After reading Why I Write by Joan Didion and other authors, I feel like I am not alone. Joan Didion is the well known author of books like “Run, River” or “Play it as it lays”. She describes herself as “not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on a piece of paper”. This gives me hope for my own writing.
I don’t often find myself writing an essay unless it’s for an English class like this one. However, writing is intertwined into my life in many ways. Like most people these days, I use texting to keep in contact with my friends and family. I use my email on a daily basis for various reasons. I also write “to-do lists” to help keep myself organized. I’ve written letters to my grandmother and other family members who live far away. I’m a bartender so sometimes I write down my customers food orders if they are complicated. I am very excited to see how my writing will bloom during this class. I am looking forward to finding new reasons to write. In her article, Joan Didion says “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear”. I’m hoping on finding out some of the answers to these questions myself. So the reasoning behind why I write is pretty much unknown to me at this point. As Joan Didion said, “Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.”
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