John Wayne's: A Love Song

Didion learned from watching John Wayne and his films that women seemed to be ignored. As we saw in the trailer, the character Mary, played by Martha Hyer, tried to stop an Elder brother from getting into danger and causing violence, but he did not seem to listen anyway. After reading Didion's essay and watching the trailer of the 'Sons of Katie Elder', Didion learns what it means to be a man and what there role is. She has always seen John Wayne as "driving cattle up from Texas, and bringing airplanes in on a single engine", and looked up to him as an adventurous, daring man.

Growing up in the 90's, music was very popular. Particularly the Spice Girls in my case. My sister, best friend and I would obsess over all of their songs and play dress up and pretend we were them performing concerts for thousands of people. The Spice Girls was about the only all girl band I really knew about at the time and I thought they were unstoppable. I felt when I would dress up as Baby Spice or Scary Spice, people would look at me as unstoppable. To this day, I still own their CD's, have been to their reunion concert several times and still continue reenacting some songs with friends. 

What I thought about Anne Lamot's "Shitty First Drafts"

Anne Lamot's essay "Shitty First Drafts" made me some what relieved about the way I write. Starting any type of essay has always been a struggle to me and I get beyond frustrated when I write a "shitty first draft". However, after reading this essay, I am relieved to know that I do not stand alone when it comes to starting essays or writing first drafts.  Everything Lamot said about how it is impossible to write a perfect first draft made perfect sense and I am definitely going to keep her advice in the back of my head when I am sitting at my desk pulling my hair out while trying to write my first draft.

My writing style is very interesting and somewhat jumbled. Writing has never been my strong suit so I definitely struggle a little bit. The first thing I do when given a prompt is construct my thesis and the areas of support that back my thesis up. Once I have my areas of support written down somewhere I look for textual evidence or I cite examples for each area of support. This way works best for me because having all of the examples for my essay in front of me before starting my essay helps it be organized and well developed. Once I have all of the necessities to start an essay, I sit down in front of my computer, stare at the screen for about 30 minutes, get a little distracted then start writing my intro. As soon as my intro is done, things begin to come to me a lot easier because I am in the mood to write. I normally write the essay in one sitting and then go back and look for errors and change some sentences around to make it sound perfect.

Writing is a storm for me. I can never accurately see the outcome of a paper and it is never predictable. My writing could be very painful to read or it is barely harmful and could end up being peaceful.