Moore's Article

After reading “How to become a writer”, I would have to say that it was definitely a light-hearted and comical article. It made a great deal of references to the different aspects in ‘becoming a writer’. Basically, though, Moore created wonderful imagery that made it quite clear how she thought. She really tries for her stories to be relatable to her readers. It seemed to be that she really doesn’t care much about plots since her article was what I would describe as “free writing”. Moore continually ‘spoke’ her mind anyway she felt necessary. Even though it didn’t initially make any logical sense to me, she was still able to express herself freely – which in my opinion, is what writing is really about And for the most part, it does seem that it is a stereotype that to be a ‘good’ writer you have to provide a good plot. However, especially after reading this article, I am starting to think that an author can still get his/her point across without actually having a ‘plot’. As, for the ‘cliché’ of an insane writer, I don’t think one can really ever be defined as crazy. In my opinion, one of the whole points of writing is to express oneself. And if they wanted to write a certain way that is different, let them be without any judgments. It doesn’t necessarily mean that their writing is wrong…or insane…(Shifting gears…) In relation to personal stereotypes: The most prominent stereotype that is relatable to my life is how “Female trumpet players will never be able to live up to Males”. And since I am a female trumpet player, this greatly affects my outlook on certain people. Therefore, I try not to have such drastic stereotypes...As for the commonly known five-paragraph essays…I have developed a strong opinion on them – I do not enjoy writing them. Since I am a very ‘free’ writer myself, I really do not like to be limited to a certain amount paragraphs. Even though, I should probably learn how to like them, because we can’t always write about what and/or how we want. And lastly, any essays that ever referred to women proving their abilities superior and/or equal to men’s was an enjoyable essay for me to read. This is extremely relatable whereas I can respect what some women have done, due to playing a ‘male-dominated’ instrument.