Authors' Names

After reading Chapter 3 and 4, I started to wonder what Woolf would think of J.K. Rowling. Woolf talks about how women did not have time to write because they are raising the kids. If women did write, they would have to hide all their work. Has this really changed in current times? Can women authors freely write?
J.K. Rowling came to my mind. The author of best selling series of Harry Potter. Rowling did not use her full name. Was she afraid that readers did not want anything by a woman? Personally, Woolf would be surprised to see that a woman author would not use her entire name, but only use her last name. The last name given by her father not mother.

Virginia Woolf

Who is this Virginia Woolf? On the back of her book, she is compared to Shakespeare. Having read Shakespeare and parts of Woolf I am not sure if they are of equal level at the time of her writing. She writes in manner that many people of the 1900s would consider "unlady-like." For instance, she laughs at a cat without a tail. (Page 13). Also, from my reading she is kind of scatter brain. She is walking around and then all of sudden she is back eating herself. Her sudden transitions make you wonder if Virginia Woolf is not really the "I" referred to in this book. Maybe Woolf is in fact writing about a couple friends. But who every the Marys are, they must have had an impact of Woolf. Mary may be the only women that Woolf met that was free....

Skydiving, my writing style

Have you every taken the PLUNGE? Trusting your life into a perfect stranger's hands?!

Initially, you are scared of everything going wrong like the parachute not opening or the airplane crashing. Finally, the pilot reaches the 13,000 mile mark, which is the perfect jump height. The crew opens the door. Your feet dangle, but you are not ready. Suddenly, the perfect stranger pushes you out and YOU fall helplessly. Until that moment when the parachute opens, which signifies your survival. As you slowly descend to the ground, the world is perfect and nothing can stop you from finishing the jump. Then the grass becomes yards away from your feet. A panic sets in that you will wipe out and completely screw up. The perfect stranger’s feet land first and then you. You take a few little steps to prevent being tangled in the parachute. And you discover that “it was not that bad.”

So, this is my writing style. Getting the assignment is a dreadful experience, and before opening my computer I need a little push. The first lines are always my toughest challenge, but then I have smooth sailing until the end is in sight. There is still proofreading and editing to do, however the finish product “was not that bad.”

This may be too much honesty for a first time post, but you sometimes have to put yourself out there. So, who wants to go skydiving OR do you just want to write a paper?