Mikayla Coyne- 1st Blog Post
There were key points in the video we watched in class that really stuck out to me. I had never really thought much about where inspiration or creation really comes from until watching this video. I think that it is important to recognize sources where inspiration comes from when they are known, but I it can be difficult to have to know where all your inspiration comes from, because inspiration can build up over time. One line that was said in the video was that "creation comes from inspiration". I find this to be true, even if people do not realize that what they are creating has been inspired from another piece of work or something they have observed in the past. This idea that creation comes from inspiration can be taken for granted, when people purposely try to take someone else's work and make it their own. This is when serious legal issues arise and people should be penalized for using someone else's ideas as their own. Even though creation comes from inspiration, it comes from many inspirations, such as someone's own observations or their own interpretations of something they have heard, not just one particular piece of work and purposely trying copy that person because what they did was successful in the past.
In response to the piece, "All Writing Is Autobiography", by Donald M. Murray, there were some arguments that I found interesting and took away certain ides after reading the piece. I never thought about all writing being an autobiography until I read this piece. It makes sense to me that all writing is autobiographical, as many writers use their pieces to express themselves, even if it is fiction. Murray states, “We become what we write.That is one of the great magics of writing. I am best known as a nonfiction writer, but I write fiction and poetry to free myself of small truths in the hopes of achieving large ones”. This is an interesting concept that Murray holds that we become what we write and that small truths are written in fiction in hopes of finding even larger truths.
When writing something, it is up to the author on how much detail they want to contain about a certain topic. If the author does not want to tell the whole story, they do not have to. If the author does not want to talk about a certain part of their life, they do not have to. And, the reader will never know, because the author is the one in control of how much information the reader takes away with them after reading the information. This idea is shown by Murray, as he writes, "I did not write the whole truth of that day, although the facts in the piece are accurate; I wrote a limited truth seeking a limited understanding, what Robert Frost called 'a momentary stay of confusion'". Although Murray knows he did not write the whole truth in the excerpt he included in the piece, if he did not say that he did not tell the whole truth, the reader would have never known that.
In response to the piece, "All Writing Is Autobiography", by Donald M. Murray, there were some arguments that I found interesting and took away certain ides after reading the piece. I never thought about all writing being an autobiography until I read this piece. It makes sense to me that all writing is autobiographical, as many writers use their pieces to express themselves, even if it is fiction. Murray states, “We become what we write.That is one of the great magics of writing. I am best known as a nonfiction writer, but I write fiction and poetry to free myself of small truths in the hopes of achieving large ones”. This is an interesting concept that Murray holds that we become what we write and that small truths are written in fiction in hopes of finding even larger truths.
When writing something, it is up to the author on how much detail they want to contain about a certain topic. If the author does not want to tell the whole story, they do not have to. If the author does not want to talk about a certain part of their life, they do not have to. And, the reader will never know, because the author is the one in control of how much information the reader takes away with them after reading the information. This idea is shown by Murray, as he writes, "I did not write the whole truth of that day, although the facts in the piece are accurate; I wrote a limited truth seeking a limited understanding, what Robert Frost called 'a momentary stay of confusion'". Although Murray knows he did not write the whole truth in the excerpt he included in the piece, if he did not say that he did not tell the whole truth, the reader would have never known that.
This was a very thoughtful response to the piece, "All Writing Is Autobiography". The points you made were precise and intriguing. I never thought about writing being an autobiography either. In the past, I have written things where I can express my own opinion and this truly is my favorite type of writing. There is something so special about writing down your views because you are practically "telling the paper how you feel" about anything. This can also reveal truths that you have within you that you didn't previously recognize (as the author wrote). A personal example of this is when I had to submit college essays and I never noticed how passionate I was about student leadership until I had to write over 10 essays about student leadership haha. It's a very interesting concept to consider.
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