Monday, October 29, 2007

writing

Making Writing was a rather short, simple, to the point story that expressed Maynard’s feelings and expressions towards her writing abilities. While I was reading this story I realized the love and the passion that Maynard has for writing her stories. She also talks about her creativity and how she values that also. Her artistic style is one that is quite uncommon; however she makes you understand the beauty that she encounters everyday.
The love and the passion for her writing seems to be her life. She works hard at writing her papers. She takes takes crucial action while writing her papers. For that matter if anybody claims to love something and can do it well. You more than likely will try to do just about anything to perfect your work. Maynard believes that you should make sure that you’re in a place where you can concentrate block out all of the unnecessary. “Control your environment. For me, this does not mean eliminating all stimuli, but it certainly means choosing the ones I want around me, and those I want to remove. It never works, for me, to write in a room (or even a house) where there is a lot of activity. Writing is an excruciatingly private act. You might be just sitting there, for an hour, but god forbid someone should walk through the room as you sit, and say (or not say, but think), "How's it going?" [Maynard, 3]. Establish rituals. And then keep them. Mine, for years, had been to see my children off to school. Come home, clean the kitchen counter, and fix myself a second cup of coffee. I spent years complaining to my children about how much I clean up after them, when they were supposed to clean up after themselves. But the truth is, (though I would never tell them this) there is something valuable, for me, in the mindless routine of certain chores. Putting on a load of laundry (and, later, folding it) being one. Cleaning off counters being another. Making a pie is a core activity for me, as well, though I won't put that in the mindless category. [Maynard, 4]. She obviously gets into the basic routine of making time for everything, even her writing without skipping a beat. Maynard is a very intelligent woman she know what needs to be done to perfect a story, she also knows how to keep the chaos and controversy at an all time low in her household. She just simply lives the life of a balancing act. However if you really claim to love the things that you “love” then no matter what you will always trying to make time for those things in life.
Maynard also says for you to get into the zone. Get into a zone. It's true for athletes (I hear. I have certainly never been one.) It's true for writers too. This one, anyway. [Maynard, 5]. She is just simply stating that make sure your concentrating on whatever it is that you’re supposedly doing. Once you’re lost in your zone of pleasure and excitement, you don’t pay attention to anything else. Just whatever it is that you’re doing.

Maynard says to ease you in and write one sentence. Easing yourself into a story is letting you have a more comfortable feeling and a better understanding of what you’re reading you also begin to relate to the writer and what he or she is saying. Writing one good sentence will soon connect the flow of all the other sentences so you can write better and easier. I do think that these are all great methods for someone to follow in order to become a great writer and to also express yourself.Ease yourself in. You could say, there is no halfway point between being stuck and writing, but I will tell you what I consider to be mine. I jot down words.
Write one sentence. No subsequent act you perform all day will be as difficult as that one, probably. In fact, every sentence that follows makes the next one that much easier.
In conclusion I must say that this story is actually a great teaching device to help people become better writers. To be able to understand, feel, and love what your reading and writing is one of the best feelings in the world. It just feels really good when you know you’re writing something good.

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