So far the books that I have read… well all one… has given me an insight to how to write a creative piece. I have only read The Emperor of Scent and thought it was amazing. I think that the author couldn’t have written a book like that if he hadn’t lived through the experience of interviewing Luca Turin to get his point of view. I think that it gives me the opportunity to see that it is easy to be able to live through something and then turn it into a creative piece.
My research paper is my life experience. I had to do everything for it! I e-mailed the professors and I sat through the lecture to get the information for my results. But most importantly I had the desire and the will to ask the questions I did and I was the one who had the urge to find out this information. So it was in my own personal interest that demanded me to write this research paper and I can recall all of the emotions I encountered throughout the process to turn them into my creative writing.
Overall I think that the research paper and the book(s) have been useful. I have experienced others perspectives and point-of-views as well as my own. So I will know how to turn my experience into something else by reading about others.
