Sarah H. Period 7

Whenever I write, I always feel like I need an amazing story or an amazing experience to write about. This makes finding ideas for essays really hard. This essay by Patrick Madden showed me that you don't need amazing things to happen in your life to make a creative essay. What he does say is that you can make a story out of anything that happens in your daily life. "The world exists. Why recreate it? I want to think about it, try to understand it. I want a literature built entirely out of contemplation and revelation. The real story isn’t the drama of what happens; it’s what we’re thinking about while nothing, or very little, is happening." stated in Reality Hunger: A Manifestoe. I love how this quote is worded. To me this quote is saying that the little details in our life, that we don't think are a big deal, could turn into an amazing story for the writer and the reader. Many of us hear tragic stories or miraculous stories that have never happened to us but are really amazing to read. Sometimes readers just need someone to relate to. Writers can write simple things that can still have a huge impact on someone because that reader might have had something small like that happened to them. You never know how much of an impact the little things that happen to you in life could be to other readers. As writers we shouldn't be afraid of what we write because every little event matters.