why i write

When i first started the reading I was a little confused by where she was going. I felt that she was just rambling about whatever popped in her head and she would occasionally make some good points. Towards the end however i had a more clear picture at what she was saying and how it all went together. I really liked her statement that writing is bullying because in a lot of cases it is. Your pushing your ideas so hard onto someone else especially in persuasive essays that in some cases (at least for me) you might even get mad as your writing good points on your subject and think "duh why wouldn't you already know this." I also like her points about not being able to think in the abstract, mainly because I'm the opposite way. I can look at an object and see so much deeper meaning into it i don't just look at a painting and say "it's a painting" I have to go into much deeper thought about it. The emotion that's shown by the strokes of the brush, what the picture is really trying to say, etc. I also like how Joan had no idea what she wanted to do or be and being a writer isn't really something she wanted it just came to her like it chose her. Writing is something that obviously comes naturally to Didion. Certain events in her life trigger random stories that she feels the need to write because once she starts a story, she wants to know more about it. She has to know how it ends, she doesn't just start it off already having a conclusion and a moral all picked out. She just starts it wherever and her knowledge about what's happening in it doesn't going on until the story goes on. I really like that she said that because i feel the same way if I'm writing a creative writing piece for school I don't have a story already planed out I just write and see where it takes me. Joan proves she feels the same way in her last quote "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." I think this sums up all writers thoughts perfectly.