freewriting

Not that following the rules are wrong, but often we take those rules too seriously to the point where we forget that writing should be a joyful exploration that interest us all the time.

Though I am a person who loves to write journals, I often panic and feel out of control when writing an essay. A great comfort came when Murray says that “the writer's ignorance is essential” (pg 3.) And he goes on explain a craft(an imperfect one) allows writers to discover what they didn’t know they knew and how this unknowing could develop an effective writing. He then says""

I think rather say Murray is telling us to break the rules, he is more telling us to be “free” from the rules. As an international student, writing in English always comes with a great fear. Countless time I had let my great ideas slip away by trying to figure out the grammar and the spelling. At the end I might write an essay with grammatically perfect but mean nothing to me. After all, those formulas and grammar could be revised, but our ideas might not come back to us. I think what Murray tried to encourage us is that, writing imperfectly is way better than too afraid to start writing.