Despite I had to finish my reading assignment for English class, I couldn't strip my eyes away from reading a rock star's biography who is know for his outlandish stage performances. His name is Marilyn Manson. I was deeply engrossed about his life from childhood to a controversial rock star. People either love him or hate him. While I was reading in the middle of his biography, I realized when a person is determined to pursue his or her goals, there is always a point when other people are judging them for reasons they can't understand. Sticking to a skill that is moderate, not challenging, is many people's expectation to live a life. Let's say a 24 year old man who is willing to pursue a medical degree to become a county doctor, however; his family and other significant people involved in the man's life are discouraging him because of the tremendous debt he will being right when he steps foot in his first class. Does this man either become a doctor, or something below the medical field like a nurse?
That, my fellow bloggers, can be a roller coaster around hell. You are able to see the other nature of people. Lorrie Moore's story "How to become a writer" involves her struggle to pursue her career many think is unsuitable: a writer. Not only is was her ambition, but her passion to share her voice with a swift hand writing in lead pencil across countless sheets of paper as friends, family, and professors criticize, discourage, and doubt her ability to write. Although why? At kick off of the story, Lorrie style of writing hit's me as fragmented. She writes in the first paragraph, "First try to be, anything, else. A movie star/ astronaut. A movie star/ kindergarten teacher". And the entire story is written like this.Upon reading the first line of the story, is the author intentionally trying to mislead readers to not comprehend her point of view? Or is she unintentionally misleading her readers?
 Is this how she writes, breaking every grammar rule in the writing rule book composed by men and demands every writer to follow this grammar holy book as if it was an organized religion. Which ever of my fellow bloggers may ask about her writing style, there is one question we should all ask: What is her purpose?
Purpose is a key aspect.  On page 148, paragraph 15, Moore asks herself "Why write? Where does it come from?" She doesn't know the exact answer herself, but only to follow her instincts, only to be constantly punched in the face how she wants to write. And worst of all, her friends and professors are unable to interpret or analyze her stories. They assume. One of Lorrie's roommates assumes all Lorrie writes about is her boyfriend. A professor tells her her voice is 'flat'. But stubborn as she is, she doesn't bow down to their demands. At the end of the story, she becomes accustom to discouragement and doubt about being a writer she accomplished.
In my interpretation, her style of writing is fragmented, but it is laced with whit. And to some of her readers it may be confusing. She doesn't reveal an exact setting. She reveal's various settings. She doesn't reveal a point. She writes various points of view. Her writing isn't long and thoroughly detailed because that is how readers fall asleep reading other stories. I'm going to ask my fellow bloggers, did any of you fall asleep during this story? Moore is like a frog  jumping from pad leaf to pad leaf, each reflecting from her childhood to present. "How to become a writer" wasn't about only the struggles to be one, but where her writing career began. Writing is monologues and fragmented sentences speeding fast forward like when watching  your favorite show on DVR, skipping all those commercials that are unimportant. Her words made who she is today. She didn't need the unimportant crap people gave her. Oh, and as for that 24 year old man who wanted to be a doctor.  He did. now he is an adviser for the U.S. attorney surgeon general.