This reading assaignment was interesting to me. I like to see and understand how people write the things they write, and she explained it quite thoroughly. She made the "how" and "why" very easy to understand. For her, the stories reveal themselves, she is a medium through which they travel. It seems like she sort of figures out the story as she goes along, a few lines will come here and there and then, all of the sudden, she knows what the story is.
I love the last paragraph of the piece, and I agree with her completely. If she knew the answers to all those questions she was aking herself, there would have been no need to write a novel about it. Sometimes when you write, even you need to figure out why you are writing and what is going on in the piece, because if you already knew, then that means others knew, which means you don't need to write about it, and they don't need to read about it.
Good to see someone relating back to the course theme (medium).
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, we sometimes write IN ORDER to find out WHY we're doing it.
i dont think i thought the same thing about why she wrote so it was interesting to see how you interpreted didion's reasons for writing, which is to answer questions she had.
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