Sunday, September 16, 2007

Jessica: “What Writing Is”

1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts or characters.

Stephen King - a famous writer

Telepathy - communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception

2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include a quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair-the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart.”

This quote means that even if you have all these feelings towards something you can never completely get the feeling in writing. The words will still never equal how you feel. The author Stephen King basically says that writing is easy. Through his writing, there is a connection between the author and reader.

3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon on specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.

What makes it easy for you to write? Is it easier for you to write when something happens to you, or can you just pick up a pen and start writing?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

this is very true i never feel like i can get everything i want to write, on paper. when im writing im trying to "paint the picture" as clear as possible so the reader can understand my points and ideas.

Unknown said...

It is easy for me to write something when it just happened to me. This is because the event is fresh in my mind and details I want to write stand bold in my head.