WRTG 150

English Symposium!

      I was lucky enough last weekend when entering into the symposium while all the speakers were being asked questions.  Of all the speakers the most interesting to me was a graduate student named Elizabeth Brady.  The topic of the session I attended was non – fiction.  When asked why it was that she decided on non fiction writing Brady talked a lot about how it was just her natural thinking.  She didn’t grow up wanting to be a non – fiction writer, but in fact wanted to write fiction stories!  However, as she tried to write stories she found it hard to make up connecting details when there is no factual base, as I inferred.  In the end she found it natural bringing real, factual stories to life.  They are already interesting and riveting so it is way easier to bring to life!  She mentioned that it was very frustrating to start your paper feeling good, hating it half way through, and then finding somehow it works in the end.  Her last comments to the question if she kept a daily journal.  She responded saying she did not keep a journal early on but now she does, but it is different than most.  She writes a few lines of her thoughts and that’s it!  She states that figuring of self is more important than daily schedules.