I really enjoyed reading Goldburg's articles. I really like her style of writing and it was fun to read! It is very hard for me to just sit down and write like some people can do. I am good at sitting down to write research papers and details that I can build off of, but to just sit and write is awful. Goldburg talks about caring about your work and then it will take care of itself and some people may like it and others may not. As long as you are satisfied with your work then that is enough. I wish I could be satisfied with my work all the time but there are times when I just cannot think of what to do to make it better. A perfect example of not being satisfied is when my thoughts are racing through my head and I cannot get them all out on paper in time. I will skip over things and forget to put them back in. I love how Goldburg wrote about getting a good pen to write with, I never thought that would make such a big difference in someone's writing and the timing of writing. I guess there are a lot of aspects to writing than I thought!

I loved reading about obsessions. I can relate so much to Goldburg. I also love to talk and brag about my family all the time. I think it is true that our obsessions have power because that is one topic that i can sit down and start writing about in an instant. It may not be interesting to some people but it excited me and gets my hand moving. Talking about places I have been or the other people that surround me is another thing that can get me to enjoy writing. If the topic I am supposed to write about does not interest me, then it is pure torture to sit and write about it and I am pretty sure the people who would be reading my writing would not be interested either. Goldburg says, "the act of repressing it seems to repress everything else too". I agree with this statement 100 percent. I can even see it. My writing is so much more interesting when I am interested in what I am writing. Having the freedom to write whatever I want is a very liberating feeling.

Another topic Goldburg talked about was using original detail. I have a problem with detail. Sometimes I use too much detail and sometimes I don't use enough. Very rarely do I do a good job using the right amount. I really liked how she said that our details are important. It is a good thing to hear from another person. Once I start talking about something important to me, I feel like other people don't find anything I am writing half as interesting as I do. Adding our emotions to our words is another thing that frustrates me in my writing. I am a very straight forward person who has a problem with looking deeper within things. I guess every person has some things to work on, I just have more in my writing.