Why I Write [TH]

When reading this passage by Joan Didion at first I had no idea where she was going at with it, but as I kept reading it all started to make sense. At first she started talking about how in college she had no idea what she wanted to do. She talked about how she was interested in Marine Biology but wouldn't follow that for a career. As she kept talking she said she was glad she didn't have all her credentials because if she did, she would have never come upon writing. Joan has a very good point in the story she states that she's not a good writer or a bad writer, she was a writer because she had a passion for it. This shows me that in whatever you do in life you should have a passion for it. I also liked the way that Joan described grammar to a piano, or the angle of a picture. I had never thought about grammar this way. It is a very true statement because if you think about it both angles of pictures or type of grammar you use can change what your trying to say. Joan also states that when she's writing something she looks at pictures. I can agree with her on this because when you look at a picture you wonder what their doing, why their doing it and things of that sort. This type of method I think would be a good way of coming up with ideas. Overall, I think this reading was a lot better than last weeks but not better than the story about the man selling all his stuff.