Virginia Godwin The Watcher At The Gates

Have you ever felt like you are being watched? Maybe it’s not even another person. Quite possibly it might just be yourself. In Godwin’s, “The Watcher at the Gates”, she discusses her “inner critique”, and opens up the possibility that everybody has one. The real page turner to this scenario is how to overcome this inner beast from taking control, or in Virginia Wolf’s case, taking too much control. I’m here to inform the world of my inner beast that was almost, unconquerable. I first became a writer at the age of 3. My first piece was…writing my name; it’s quite a popular piece. As the years went on, my writing got a little more advanced. By the age of 10, I wrote my first song called, “Guitar”. Now this seemed relaxing at the time, but as I got older… ehh not so much. Writing became more complicated; there was more rules, more things I had to think about, more restrictions on what could come out of my brain, and,even,more,commas. That is when my mind created a monster, or what I like to call, “The Mom of Creativity”. That is my watcher. …show more content…
Godwin says “It is amazing the lengths a watcher will go to keep you from pursuing the flow of your imagination”. That’s exactly right! My mind is no longer free, it’s now trapped as this puppet, with the strings being controlled by my watcher. She tells me when she thinks something is stupid, or just doesn’t sound right. She tells me that I have to follow the directions and find rhetorical devise like, anaphora and diction; and I have to use words like, passionate and despise, instead of, love and hate. She tells me that I have to write more, or I have to write less. To make matters worse; I’m on a time