Goldberg's Obsessions

This reading also shared a common theme with the others that were assigned this week. That theme was the element or lack of self involvement or in one's writing. A main point that Goldberg makes is that no matter how much one tires of writing about their family or friends and tries to repress it, their experiences and behaviors always seem to sneak back into a writer's subconscious inspiration. Goldberg also argues that the energy expended trying to repress natural inspiration caused by family and friends has a negative effect on the quality of writing one is able to produce. In essence, Goldberg encourages readers to just write whatever comes to them, to just write what comes natural, or "go with the flow" as the colloquialism says. I completely agree with Goldberg's points. There is nothing more true about writing than the fact that it must be honest and true. Writing must encompass an author being honest with his or her readers as well as themselves. For if an author's own brand of honesty is not entrenched within every letter they write, then any attempt at writing is rendered futile. If this were to be the case, one wouldn't be writing stories, novels or poetry. In that case, one would not be writing anything more than mere words.