A writer is someone who expresses theirselves and emotions through writing. A writer writes down his or her own thoughts in many different ways of writing. I feel like I am an okay writer. However, I do believe when I begin to start writing I can keep going. My brain becomes overfilled with thoughts and new ideas and I have to begin to write them down. Similar to James Paul Gee’s, “What is Literacy?” he says, when speaking of a discourse he means, “a socially accepted association among the ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or social network.” We all acquire a discourse at one point in our lifetime, and acquiring such a discourse helps us writers learn, think, and write. Another example is Donald Murray’s “The Maker’s Eye,” he says “The maker’s eye is never satisfied.” This statement means that the piece of work usually goes unfinished as it will continue to grow and change every time one looks at it. I can relate that this describes me as a writer. I believe that every time I finish a rough draft or even a final draft, I continuously keep looking at it. This is primarily because I have room to grow/change things to my writing. I have grown accustomed to accept the fact that my writing is never really finished. It always has room to change. So, I would describe myself as a opinionated writer and I always want to include sources or ways for the reader to connect to my writing. I feel that a lot of my writing comes from a lot of thought and creativity.
