Journal II
In Writing From The Heart, the author, tells of how her mother was dying. She uses this story to explain a writing concept. This was the authors mother, she loved her, and she would do all she can to help her mother the last eleven months that she was alive. Besides just her mother, she also had a family to take care of. When she was with one, she felt guilty about not being with the other. There were a lot of emotions flying around and the author goes on to tell how these emotions would lead to good writing. One tends to write better when there is a emotional attachment to the subject. Love, hate, curiosity, whatever gets the heart moving in the writer. These are the emotions that will allow the writer to construct a good writing. Borders showed how a grey area between two subjects could hold ideas and connections that can be used to vamp up your writing. The two could be, two different subjects or a injection of ones own knowledge, experiences, or history.
I did not find these readings too interesting. They seemed closer to a reminder for a writer, instead of a lesson for one. But none the less, it carried some useful information. If there was a time i had to write from the heart, it was probably when i had to write my science fair paper my junior year. I had so much pride in my project, and i knew everything inside and out. This lead me to write a phenomenal paper that lead me all the ways to state. One of the questions asked if writing form the heart would be appropriate to do in a scholarly area? Personally i would say yes. Why, because without pride or some sort of emotion within the writing, the writing becomes drab and in certain instances may take away from the message.
I did not find these readings too interesting. They seemed closer to a reminder for a writer, instead of a lesson for one. But none the less, it carried some useful information. If there was a time i had to write from the heart, it was probably when i had to write my science fair paper my junior year. I had so much pride in my project, and i knew everything inside and out. This lead me to write a phenomenal paper that lead me all the ways to state. One of the questions asked if writing form the heart would be appropriate to do in a scholarly area? Personally i would say yes. Why, because without pride or some sort of emotion within the writing, the writing becomes drab and in certain instances may take away from the message.
Well to me the writings are just to refresh my memory and keep my mind open to new ideas so the brain can start pumping blood. I find it very cool that your junior year you was able to go all the way to state on something you love! My senior year we were District Champs for basketball; i did not write anything towards it but i can imagine how much effort you were able to put into it.
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