There are many similarities and differences between writing skills in the book Exploring Language. By examining some of the authors in the book, Linda Flowers and Anne Lamott are the authors that connected best with improving my writing skills.
Anne Lamott a graduate from Drew School, tells all her new students on the first day of a workshop that good writing is about telling the truth. Telling the truth in an interesting way is not as easy as it seems. Most lose faith. Their sense of self and story shatters in crumbles to the ground. Commonly her students will show up for the first day of the workshop looking like bright ducklings who will follow her anywhere, but by the time the second class rolls around, they look at her as if the relationship is definitely off (Lamott 95). Lamott tips on writing what is real will help me stay focused on writing about my own true stories, because the work won’t have be made up. You don’t have to keep digging and digging trying to make your fake story real, real stories sometimes may sound fake but they real and more interesting then your fake stories. My senior year of high school my English Teacher gave the class a writing assignment to write about a true story in your life. I wanted my story to sound the best, so I made my story up. The story was about a ghost encounter in Colorado, it …show more content…
Questions that’s come with knowledge are, what does your reader know, main ideas you hope to teach, and does the reader have enough background knowledge to really understand you (Flower 93). For example if I writing about a baseball story, I would need to know how much does the reader know about baseball. The main reason is to give knowledge to the reader. If I was writing about a golden sombrero most readers would really think its a sombrero, but in baseball terms it mean when a batter strikes out four consecutive times in a single game, and these are the things I hope to teach to the