At the end of this essay, you may understand why The Secret Life of Walter Mitty captured my interest and why I have chosen to write this essay on this particular literature. Usually, I have a hard time reading. Not because I have trouble reading the words, I have trouble reading because I tend to lose focus when something does not grab my attention. I am the type of person who likes to use my imagination while I am reading. It helps me visualize what I am reading and helps me connect to whatever I am reading.
Who I Am As a Writer. The traditional model of the writing process includes brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, editing, and then finally publishing. But not many people actually follow this burdensome process step-by-step, going through all of the six processes. I don't brainstorm on paper, this is because I like to get things done briskly. Although brainstorming is a critical process, I do it in my brain due to the fact that in my brain, I know what to write about right after I get my assignment.
As a writer I’ve had a few experiences, some good and even a few bad. Writing can sometimes make me a bit nervous and at times scared. As a debt collector I’ve had to write an essay to my boss, explaining my problems and concerns to him was very intimidating. I’ve also had to write a paper for my GED exam. That was nerve racking but a great experience.
Angelou wrote this autobiography for several reasons; one was as a reminder not to give in during the trials of growing up. Angelou has said, "somebody needs to tell young people, listen, I did this and I did that. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." Caged Bird is sometimes considered essential reading for young students, and is on many required reading lists; however, the book has also proved controversial, because of its
Nicholas Carr is giving voice to these concerns. This article is about one skill that he believes is being eroded, that of reading: "I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.
Since there is no mention of key factors to point at Sir Lanka, readers are to take the novel as a commentary about several places that experienced post-colonial trauma. Western readers who never experienced trauma on the level of Sir Lanka – readers will see that trauma is as definable as the disappearances of people during civil wars. Ondaatjee uses his novel to send a message: trauma is incapable of being accurately described and people can only attempt to understand trauma. Yet, readers will never quite understand the mental strain on a person unless the person has dealt with something traumatic themselves. Ondaatjee uses Anil to start off the narration of Anil's Ghost, using her as the equivalency to a Western reader.
Free-writing and idea mapping are fantastic ways to begin thinking about the general topic, and also allows the author to find how they can relate with to the topic. Once the author has a grasp on their ideas and what they want to write about, as well as grasp of who their audience will be, he or she will begin outlining the structure of their ideas. This second step requires the author to organize the information that they want to share. Outlining their ideas will allow the author to begin writing and transition between points without confusing their audience. The third step, in the writing process, is writing a rough draft.
Bad Books are good? There are several lessons that the new readers always get from reading some kinds of books. In his essay, “On Writing,” author Stephen King illustrates his different opinion from reading the books: “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (367). The author believes that reading bad books can take some positive points for the growing writer after he reads a lot of kinds of different books. That issue is the result why he thought like that kind of strange.
He claims that the best writing is writing that not only amuses the reader, but impacts them as well; and in order to do that, a writer must be in touch with their emotions. Without emotions, such as fear, a writer simply writes as if they have forgotten the problems of the human heart. In the speech, Faulkner continues provide the necessary steps in writing for a bigger purpose: to fulfill their duty as writers. Faulkner challenges young writers to become the pillars for an unbalanced society by sprinkling the speech with antonyms, parallelisms, and polysyndetons. When opening up the speech, Faulkner describes the type of writer he is by incorporating antonyms.
A great example of a book being somewhere on the border of fiction and autobiography is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё. As it was first published under the name of Currer Bell, the readers had a harder time to make the connection with the author when it was published, as they thought it was written by a man, but some regarding places (where the story took place) were made. Today, knowing Brontё’s life story, we can draw many parallels between the author herself and her heroine. First, it may seem, that it was not Brontё’s intention to write real life into her greatest work, but to use it merely as an inspiration. Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell (2001:262) has said: “We were talking about the description of Lowood school, and she was saying that she was not sure whether she should have written it, if she had been aware how instantaneously it would have been identified with Cowan Bridge.” I think it is only understandable that using real life experience gives a more believable description and due to that it is more enjoyable to readers.