How To Be A Writer Analysis

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When anyone is required to do something, it is a lot less enjoyable than doing it by their own free will. In the essay How to Be a Writer a women asked how to help her daughter achieve her goal of becoming a successful writer. Many parents use force in an attempt to help their kids reacher their goals. Using force is not always the best answer. Say she forced her daughter to read every day, reading would go from fun to a teddies task, or chore. Same thing for writing. Also, if she was required to let her mother read everything she wrought, writing would become an unbearable task, trying to make everything perfect and never writing about extremely personal things. Using force should not be the answer to helping someone become a better writer, instead help let them by nudging them in the wright direction. What if her mother decided to make her reed every day. Many people would think this would help a writer because a good writer needs many hours of reeding. But in doing so, the mother may find her daughter more reluctant to read. It should be the daughters decision to read, than she can say she did it rather than she got it done. Instead of using force, some ways to help someone become …show more content…
She would become reluctant and the fun would relinquish. This would also limit her writing thus limiting the growth she could have in becoming a writer. Instead, it says in the essay to let her make mistakes, and quit if she wants to. The writer wanted the daughter to experience life herself. They suggested the mother insist her daughter spend time with family, let her write about crazy things, let her get a difficult job with little pay, let her experience hard work with little pay, let her buy books with her own money, and the list goes one. The phrase “let her” is stated twenty times in this essay, this shows how much letting someone accomplish and experience their own life is just as important as getting to the