Charles Bukowski’s writing is unlike any other; he has the ability of getting away with subjects matters that is vulgar and inappropriate, all the while creating pieces that find meaning and relevance in the darkest aspects of life. In “Would You Suggest Writing as a Career”, “Great Poets Die in Steaming Pots of Shit” and “Too Sensitive” Bukowski criticizes the way in which most authors fictionalize and sugar coat reality in order to attain a sense of superiority that comes with the position of a writer. Bukowski is disgusted by this attitude, straying away from anything that is not gritty realism and authentic.…
Marian Lewes uses logos to convey her purpose of never giving up on her dreams. She says, “Besides, the vision of something life might be and that one’s own ignorance and incompleteness have hindered it from being, presses more and more as time advances.” Her purpose in saying this is to make sure that Peirce doesn’t second-guess herself when she is wondering whether or not to continue with her goal of becoming a writer. Lewes believes that many writers have a lot of potential, but their own ignorance prevents them from taking the risk to start writing. Because Peirce looks up to Lewes as a role model, this advice comforts her and reassures her that she can still begin writing.…
Authors use many different tools to portray and create some fictional world inside the readers mind such as plot, point of view, characterization, symbolism, etc... “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Lottery” are two very melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson both use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and mood of their stories.…
Firstly, Maxine Tynes, the poet, discovered that the creative process was not chosen consciously by her but instead is collected from her experiences with love, life, thought and feeling. The poet states, “It is not selected from a list of choices of being perhaps a clerk, a stonemasons, a nurse or doctor, or a weaver.” The previous quotation that can be inferred by many, shows the affirmative stance in the authors voice by trying to persuade the readers into believing that writing isn’t about structure or about the authors amazing credentials; it is about the natural uncontrollable urge to write freely about any thoughts,…
Throughout the story the narrator has to be secretive when she writes; she is not allowed to do anything to stimulate her mind. She says “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition” (Perkins, 65). Writing is her way of expressing herself and when she has to be sneaky about it she becomes tired. Although she…
Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one's own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.…
The most vivid memory I have of writing is back in the tenth grade. I had the best teacher ever in regards to writing. I used to view writing as a senseless waste of time. Writing, in my opinion, at the time was always noted to be formal and boring; however, my tenth grade English teacher, Mrs. Perez, changed my whole perception of writing and how it affects humanity. One day after class she pulled me aside and recommended a book known as, “His Dark Materials,” which is about a young girl who, with her allies, fought for the discovery of a dark substance called the “Dust.” The book single handedly altered my mental picture of writing and creativity. Writing can be about anything in the universe, and the possibilities are endless. The main point, however, which ties everything together, is imagination. One’s imagination can truly be defined as infinite to the power of infinite, because it contains numerous amounts of details and features on life and the world itself. How does this tie to writing one may ask. Well an elaborate imagination helps to create an elaborate piece of writing. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”…
Writers use what they know to make their work into something that can be treasured for years. They share what they know, they paint pictures with their words that allow their readers to get a glimpse of their lives and in some cases they use what is going on around them to share what they are feeling, or what they are not feeling. In some cases the writers use other pieces of literature or other people’s ideas to get their point across.…
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland on October 24, 1632 to Philips Thoniszoon, a Dutch tradesman that made baskets, and Grietge Jacobs, the daughter of a brewer. He is also commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist. They lived in a comfortable home until his father and two of his sisters died when Anthony was just eight years old. Also, his mother was left with five young children. Therefore, Anthony was sent to live with his uncle who is reported to have taught him some math and physics.…
Montaigne introduces ambiguity in traditional distinctions, one of them being the separation between imagination and reality. Through both realistic and fantastical examples, Montaigne illustrates the power of imagination to infringe upon reality. He recounts a story of someone who executes himself by power of imagination in expectation of the executioner's blow. Excessive visualization in the mind causes the event to actually occur. In another example Montaigne explains how a man catches impotence from his imagination out of fear of performing poorly. In blurring the distinction between reality and imagination by uniting mere thoughts with tangible outcomes, Montaigne makes his reader reconsider the association of fiction with imagination, and non-fiction with reality. The presentation of the interchangeablility of these ideas plants a seed of doubt in the readers' minds about the ability to control their actions. Perhaps the presentation of these stories are a reflection of Montaigne's own insecurities since he claims that he borrows stories yet "the inferences are my own". Each account of Montaigne's is directly aimed at illustrating the power of imagination as apparent from the title of this essay.…
concentrates on his interpretation of what proper reading and great authors entail. He specifically articulates that one should read to comprehend minute details before summarizing the big picture of the text; if they try to create generalizations from the beginning, they will not be able to grasp the true meaning of the piece. He then explains that the best authors are those who create a new universe with their words instead of further commenting on the existing world. Furthermore, he states that effective pieces are able to evoke several varieties of imagination. Although he believes that the…
Roald Dahl claims, through his quote, a writers’s ability to have complete freedom, heavily outweighs his downfalls. This can be received from the quote, through the recognition of his sarcastic tone, when describing a writer as a fool. By doing this, he emphasizes that a writer may appear to be a fool to the average person, but he is actually very content with himself, which is all that really matters. Also his quote is created in a climactic form, in which all the elaborately worded negatives lead up to one simply contracted positive sentence. This causes the one positive, of having no reigns when being a writer, to stand out from the setbacks.…
Imaginative writing is an art that expresses ideas and thoughts in an imaginative way. This art involves universal laws of human nature, and both time and place. Without connecting the reader through these principles, the author’s work is somewhat meaningless. In order for the author to gain something through his/her work, the author must be able to manipulate the perceptions of the reader. This can be done by successfully incorporating the five elements of craft found in literature. These elements function to focus the reader towards a specific end, and the five elements include: image, voice, character, setting and story. It is imperative that the author utilizes these elements to create a piece that stimulates emotions in the reader.…
Early on in the text, McEwan begins making subtle references to the process of writing and rewriting that occurs when creating a piece of fiction. For instance, after seeing her sister emerge dripping wet from the fountain outside, Briony considers asking Cecilia to explain the “prospect she was coming close to defining, at least emotionally” (40). This “definition would refine itself over the years” (40) and, it is implied, over the multiple drafts. What follows is a long passage that leaps forwards sixty years into the future to tell the reader that all of Briony’s fiction from then on was shaped by “an impartial psychological realism which she had discovered for herself” (41) that very morning. By calling attention to the writing process, McEwan is also drawing attention to the number of times Briony rewrote her novella Two Figures by a Fountain in attempt to atone for the crime that stemmed from that moment.…
The literary work does not give us a neatly-shaped reflection and a knowledge of reality but acts within reality to expose its contradictions. ‘Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world’ (1977: 160). It means knowledge which can undermine and negate a false or reified condition. He opens up modernist writing to Marxist literary theory by showing that a different kind of relationship between the text and reality is possible: one of distance and negative knowledge rather than reflection.…