Journal 23: Influence of Childhood

         Of course an author’s childhood would affect the writer’s writing. I think the author’s writing style would be the main thing that is affected by their childhood. I think my unique experiences in my life are the best sources of inspiration for a story. Those experiences are very special, they are like my personal library which stores all the information I need for a new exciting story. For the simple reason that I went through the events myself, I am able to describe them as detail as I wanted. If I want to, I could also make changes to them and form a fictional story basing on my own experience, every thing is easier with an outline, especially the outline I know my heart.

       Sometimes my own story might not be as good as the ones on the shelf even though they might be similar. However, if I would think of my own experience when I am reading the book, the author had succeeded in making the story more realistic. This is why there are so many books about love, everyone experience love sometimes in their life. Authors take this advantage of common experience and make thousands of stories out of them. Readers feel connected to the story and are able to feel that they are part of the story or understand the character’s feeling because they had experience the similar things sometimes in their life.