September 28 Reading Response

In Raymound Roussel’s How I Wrote Certain of My Books uses a variety of styles and techniques to improve the readers writing through many and strategies used by Roussel to write his book. I think he does it in a interesting style because rather than give you steps, its like he is having a one on one conversation with the reader. Usually most of techniques consist of picking one word and expanding, for example, if you start with the word marine, it can lead you to navy blue, and make a sentence like, “hence the accident which befell Nina when she was wearing her navy blue frock. The first two sections of Locus Solus also written by Roussel seemed to go into different things but it seems for no reason and had a weak plot which was hard to understand. While Hazel Smith shows the limitless ways of how to write in Creative Writing. She emphizes the importance of exercise and self expression through extensive practice to be good at Creative Writing.