Does it take effort to be a good writer and why?

Is it hard to be a writer is what you should be asking. I know this will sound a bit strange, but I look back on my early days of writing and can tell you that you have to develop a degree of intimacy with what you write. You become dedicated to the words you put down, and you must do this all the time. Not just every day you must write X amount of words. You must be observant of things every chance you get, at one point having the discipline to write it into a notebook, the way you’d walk in the door at night and grab a cold soda pop, sit down at your keyboard, and do the equivalent of saying “Honey, I can’t wait to tell you what I saw/heard today.” And eventually, some of those anecdotes will find their way into what you write.

I was never a good writer until I learned enough to fall in love with the words. To be a good writer, you have to find the right voice, it cannot be stilted or absurd. You’ll know when you find it, because you will. No one gets it right away, but it is the first real step to becoming a good writer. Voice isn’t just words, it is rhythm, it is feeling.

All the rest comes after, the expansion of events and ideas that you want your reader to think about. You and your words need to be partners.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.



question

discuss the two key differences between the prose form of sojourner truth’s speech and the poetic version. use evidence from both texts to support your response.