Chad Bonar

Goodman

1/15/14

          

          As I was reading this article by Goodman I could not help but thinking about what she said about people criticizing themselves and thinking they should not write because there were high standards made by other authors. I would have to say that no should ever give down on themselves because everyone has a different style of writing and to someone out there your style is their favorite style to read. As Goodman said Love what you write. Nothing scares the inner critic more than a writer who can love her/his work. The writer who is engaged in her/his material forgets all about censoring herself/himself. So everyone needs to shut off their inner critic because, if you don’t he/she won’t ever allow you to love and/or finish your pieces of writing because, it makes you think your stuff is not good enough so than you procrastinate finishing it. If you do shut off the inner critic you can actually write about what you think and not care what other people think of it which can be dangerous sometimes but this is how everyone should write.

            Everyone has an inner critic within themselves and he/she is right next to the grammar police. They both can come in handy but at times they get in your way for what writing what you actually think and/or want to write about. So if you can push them into the back of your head and make them the least of your worries than you can actually write how you feel and show yourself how good your writing can really be to everyone else out there. Instead of criticizing yourself because of the old really good authors who set the goal really high how about you think of them as inspiration so that you don’t have to criticize yourself anymore. If you could do this you are able to set yourself free in writing.