The way Joan Didion described writing was very different. It made me think of writing as actually interesting rather than somewhat boring. She explains it as a way of getting your point across to other people and getting them to listen to you in a completely different way. You can make the reader listen to you, make a point and persuade people to see your side, and cover up any aggressiveness towards the reader just in the words you choose and the way you arrange those words on the paper.
"Why I Write" was a very good title for Joan Didion's, even though she stole it. It stated in three words what she was going to tell you with a very good explanation. She did make me want to keep reading what she had to say like when she talks about shimmer and all the descriptions of pictures in the mind. She describes what goes on in her head while shes writing and how she makes sense of the pictures in her mind. I thought it was really interesting not only why but how Joan Didion writes. How she starts from the pictures she has, which have no meaning yet, with out any idea what the plot is even going to be. Then with however many pictures she has she makes them into pieces of the novel and builds off of them. With all those pieces she fits them all together on paper and turns it into a novel.
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