real blog # 3

I have to say that her writing is very interesting. I’ve never read an article that was so conversational; it felt like she was in the room talking to me. She was asking me all these hypothetical questions and I found myself answering them! She certainly gets your attention when she describes little details such as her reaction to others comments. I found myself relating to her thinking that I would react the same way. Her experiences are very relatable because she writes about her experience becoming a writer as if it were a biography. She narrates a series of events that lead to her becoming a writer. I though the description of her first day of class was hilarious. I felt the exact same way. Our classroom is just a room full of computers and in the middle of the room there is a seminar table just like she described. I pictured our classroom when I read this part of her article. I liked it how she not only said what was happening but also, in some instances, what was going through her mind. I also thought it was interesting that she wrote the whole thing in second person. I never thought about writing a book like that. Over all, this article made me think about how I am becoming a writer. I have already considered many times about changing my major. Most of the people that know me say I should have been a writer from the start. I am always making up stories in my head and I tell them to people with great results but I can never sit down and physically write them down. In my stories I also create a persona that much resembles me in the main characters just like it described in the article and I thought I was the only one or that maybe that was wrong. It is very interesting how in the end she stuck to her conviction and refused to change her major back. She describes how bad she is at making a plot and how there is a period where she does not write anything but she still continues to write in the end. To her it was all about writing because she liked to write. It doesn’t really specify but it did not seem like she made writing her actual profession but she writes because she enjoys to write. At the very end she does mention quitting her job to have more time “like warts on your hands”. So I guess in the very end she did make it a profession of sorts. So this article really inspired me to think about my own thoughts and maybe think about writing some of the down because they might be pretty good who knows. I really related to her story and I can see her frustration at her writing as if it were my own, but she hangs in there and so will I. that is what I got out of this article.