In Why I Write, Joan Didion talks about pictures in her mind and how she writes about those images or what is going on around her. How she uses these images and creates grammar with them. She writes for her own self to figure out what’s going on around her and in her head. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Why did the oil refineries around Carquinez Straits seem sinister to me in the summer of 1956? Why have the night lights in the bevatron burned in my mind for twenty years? What is going on in these pictures in my mind?” Joan Didion is saying in this quote that she writes to find out what she’s thinking about what she’s seeing and what she hears and everything that is going on around her. She likes to write down what she is thinking to figure out why she is thinking these things. She wants to know what is going on around her that’s why she writes. Why I write, Maggie Price. I’m going to be honest writing isn’t my favorite thing to do. The only time I ever write is either for assignments for class, filling out a new job application for a job, if I see a funny post on social media, tweeting stupid tweets of thoughts that just pop in my head, or posting on Facebook. Texting is one way I can definitely say that I write a lot, I couldn’t tell you the last time I actually picked up a phone to call someone and actually opened my mouth to talk it actually amazes me. So, I guess I would say the only time I ever really write is when I’m required to or when I’m going on and on texting to my friends about what’s going on in my life or when I’m tweeting every thought that pops in my head. I think I do enjoy writing sometimes when the topic is interesting, I’m talking about something that interests me like tweets on twitter or writing about a post I see on Facebook or social media and when I’m constantly texting my friends and family.
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