Last week in class I was asked if I thought writers were relevant when analyzing a story, essay, novel, ect. I can tell you in all honesty that I had never really thought about this. . . is the writer relevant? I came up with an answer that.. kind of lacks if you're wanting a straight answer. I think it depends. It depends on the writer, it depends on what the person is writing. . . it just depends.
We have read quite a bit this semester and we did look at the writers background when analyzing these stories. This made me first think, well duh, it must be important. With many of the writers we looked at you could see a connection with events in their life and their stories. An example of this is Kate Chopin-- in both of the stories of hers that we read, we could see connection of her life throughout. But it's not always like that. Sometimes a writer just thinks of something about goes from there. An example I have of this (not one from our class) is the writer of the bestseller Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn. I was watching an interview with her the other day and she was asked if her marriage or if any of her relationships inspired her story and she said that it in no way was based on her life-- she is very happily married (unlike the characters in the story).
I think this coming week, we will be able to see differences like this in the authors we talk to. I think some of them will be able to tell us that the stories they write come from events in their lives a lot of the time. Others might say the opposite.
Along with this, I have many other questions I might bring up to these others:
-What/Whom inspires you?
-Are their any particular writers that inspire you?
-When did you realize you wanted to become a writer?
-How long did it take you to become a published writer and what are some struggles that came with that?
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