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Ingram Reader Response Letter 11/12/13 RRL: I am Not a Writer, I am a Good Writer I feel as if the author of this section of the book was me. Joe Quatrone embodied the mind of the average high school and college student writer, or just anybody who is in writing class that is actually giving an effort to become a Good Writer. I have said over and over I agree with what this author said, I agree with what that author said in all of the other reader response letters I have written. But I feel as if this author was not trying to get me to agree with him, say yes he is right about everything, or to think he was actually a good writer. I interpreted what he wrote as his way of just simply writing. He has nothing to prove, he had no mysterious motive behind his thoughts. They were simply just that: thoughts. He began discussing how he did not think he was a writer. I can relate to this because I say it all the time. I really do not consider what I do as writing. If in comparison so Michael Angelo or some famous for their poetic writing abilities, I do not think I would stand a chance. Even the author would probably say the same thing. Quatrone later says in his next paragraph that he is a good writer. At this point I was confused; I wondered how he was going to explain to me that he was not a writer, but a good writer. Of course I saw the title and I expected that there would be some mental stump that I would have to get through in order to understand the moral behind the reading, but he just gave his own definition of what a good writer is. A good writer is one who is able to know how to write and express their own thoughts down on paper without

having read Writing for Dummies or Writing: 101. I have always had thoughts in my head and ideas of trying to be some poetic writer that gives all of these in depth meanings of life and how the glass is half-full instead of half-empty. The problem is the more I try to do what I think is good writing the more I will not be a writer at all. The road to good writing is to writenaturally, un-natural, holistically, logically, dumbly, smartly, any type of -ly (grammar) you want because it starts with you me and everyone else. Having no bounds with writing is how you become a good writer. I believe this one section in the book is what Prof. Ingram has been exposing us to in and in-directly out of class. I wonder why we have not read this section before in class, but it is truly amazing. If there was something I could ask the author it would be, Who is considered a bad writer? and or Do you think being your definition of just a good writer will bring you success through life?