“The Right to Write” by Julia Cameron is a book filled with her tips and tricks on how to improve one’s writing, though, it’s more like what she does to help her write as well as what she believes writing truly is. She says, “It’s a luxury to be in the mood to write. It’s a blessing but it’s not a necessity. Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” And in all honesty, I think this is true, though, I hardly ever follow it. Often when I just don’t want to write I choose not to, but those times I force myself to begin writing I get really into it!
Julia believes that the will to write and create is trained out of people at a young age, she believes it’s trained out in school. Certain students believe they’re better writer’s because of grades they get on essays, being told it’s “Well written”. As Julia says, all that means is that the student used proper grammar, had good facts, follows the guidelines, and there is almost none of the writer in it, there isn’t any emotion.
Writing is a form of communication that should not be cut off, people should be allowed to write creatively rather than be forced into lines and shoved into essays. I’m not trying to say essays are the worst things in the world, that they’re useless, I’m just saying they shouldn’t be the only form of writing accepted in schools.
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