Creative Essay

The first essay that I wrote for EN100 was the Literacy Narrative Essay. Although this assignment seemed dreadful, this essay made me realize how much was expected of me, and how far my writing was from those expectations. Throughout the course of the semester, my writing vastly improved, getting closer and closer to meeting expectations. The Discourse Community Essay was so close to those expectations, and the Informative Essay was right where I wanted it to be. In writing my…

All writers are passionate about writing. Few writers, however, are fortunate enough to make a living off of their calling, or even to publish a book. In today 's modern world of consumerism, being an author on a full-time basis is no longer an option for more than an elite few. The majority of published authors are also productive members of society in another sense, taking on some other form of gainful employment. To find out more about this double life of an author, I managed to procure an…

Entering a Conversation While writing there is a lot of pressure to be able to create a perfect piece of writing. This tends to create an unreasonable type of pressure on the writer. Writers tend to overthink their work which leads to a block being created. When approaching writing many of use take different routes, but more often than not we stress ourselves out trying to create perfect drafts. In “The Inspired Writer Vs. The Real Writer,” for example, Sarah Allen argues that writing is not a…

Creative Thinking Profile “Creativity is described as the production of new and useful ideas in any domain.” Professor Theresa Amabile. According to creativity at work, creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterized as the ability to perceived the world in new ways, to find hidden parttern, to make connection between seeminly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involes two process: Thinking then producing. The…

The Writing Life Annie Dillard’s, The Writing Life, gives the aspiring writer bits and pieces of her own experience to help fuel the creative process an eager learner needs to get their own desires from literature onto paper. With frankness, Dillard gives advice on how one should begin to write, revealing an insight into the reality of the beautiful yet difficult process of the written word. One piece of advice is simply just to write down anything and everything. Without putting yourself out…

Author Amy Tan, having grown up with a mother who did not have English as her first language, has experienced a very different set of circumstances than an average English-speaking household when it comes to communicating. In her article, “Mother Tongue,” she dives into her past, sharing the language struggles she saw her mother encounter, along with her own battles with finding her literary voice. What she found in the end was that we all, regardless of native tongue, use many levels to our…

What is the name or title of your subject? Westwind’s Creative Sessions and their charity event, Westwind’s Creative Exhibition. What is the nature of the subject? When it comes to education, it always seems that schools are cutting out their music and art programs. Well, sadly it is because they are. With the growing cost of education, many schools find themselves forced to cut out these programs. Our very own Westwind Elementary was forced to make this difficult decision. However, Westwind…

A Journey that Starts at the Opening of a Page New writers, and future hopefuls, how have you been spending your past-time these past few years? According to Stephen King’s short story “On Writing”, people that wish to survive as a Liberal Arts major, or even worse a Literature and Writing major must read constantly and fiercely. So yes, stop waiting for Apple’s new release of another iPhone, Sony’s unnecessary new Playstation devices and Snapchat’s annoying new filters, because you are about…

saying, “There is a boy named Chris McCandless that really gave back to nature and decided to take on the outside world challenges.” I've progressed on my introduction skills as a writer, not perfect but I have been working on it. Improving on my creative word play in my Damien Echols Essay I extended my word choice, like so, “According to society we the people have to correspond with the same things and do the same things in order for us to be in line, but when someone steps out of the box…

books that haven’t been touched in years, the smell of the pages. The only place better to read a book would be in complete solitude. Fictional and science fictional were always my favorite. I was always intrigued with how the authors could be so creative. As if their imagination were never-ending or their mind full of ideas. It was inspiring For me, reading was an escape. A sort of adventure in which you can open your imagination and enter into another world. Not just another world, but…