Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Writer Self-Study
Writing is a way for people to express their feelings and let out what's on their minds. It's also a way for people to escape from reality and find a world where no rules apply. Writers are people who write about their thoughts and are people who have the ability to keep on writing about more ideas. They can also go deep into there writing and go beyond the topic. In order to be given the title of a writer one must exceed expectations and not be afraid to really go deep. To become a good writer someone has to be simple with their writing and be understandable for others to easily grasp what is placed in front of them. My favorite writer would have to be Suzanne Collins because she creates good plots in the Hunger Games series and knows how to create suspense. I consider myself a writer that goes beyond what is expected and better than a good writer. A "writer" is part of my identity because I can write about ideas out of the box and about prompts/topics that are given to me. When I was younger I learned how to write from watching educational kid TV shows or from learning from my parents and/or teachers. I wasn't only writing in english I was also writing in spanish. Learning how to write in both languages really helped when I first started to write. Now I would consider myself a prolific writer due to the fact that I like to write a lot more than what is expected. As a writer I would like to go even deeper in my writing. I would also like to bigger open-mind that would lead me to other points. The kinds of writings I choose to do are over fiction rather than non-fiction because somebody cannot be limited with creativity and can e limited with facts. Fictional writing I enjoy because I can come up with stories that no one has ever heard about. For example, a dog living inside a cat that has fur made out of bacon. Most of the time I'm required to write about facts of a historical event or write about what I read in a book. The kinds of writing I fear the most would have to be about true things because I would need to know the information in order to write rather than just writing freely. This excercise helped me gain information about my type of writing style. My approach to writing is that it's simple as long as I can write over whatever I want. This process was interesting and fun because I learned about my type of writing style, what good writers are, and where my interest for writing came from. I am a writer that can go beyond from what is expected and a writer than can be creative when appropriate. My past had a great impact to the type of writer I am today. I am a writer.
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I agree that you cannot be limited with creativity, but I also don't think there are necessarily limits when it comes to facts. Yes, you cannot just go and make a bunch of stuff up, but you can take those facts and present them in an interesting and unique way. For example, several years ago I had to write about the life of a famous person, and rather than writing a biography for it, I wrote it in the form of diary entries. This still accurately displayed true information, but it wasn't really what my teacher was expecting when she assigned such a dry, boring project. So, it is possible to be creative even withing nonfiction. Howver, now that I have that point, I will concede that I too prefer to write fiction, although probably not for the same reason as you. I like to write fiction because it provides me a release without directly revealing exactly what I am going through, or if I am even going through anything at all. The same goes for poetry. I love to write poetry, and although you can write nonfiction poetry, I really do prefer fiction. Writing fiction does allow you to fully experiment with your style of writing and lets your imagination flow in whatever direction you decide to take it in. Anyway, I just wanted to point that out. (Sorry if I jumped around a bit.)
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