1. Text-Set Example
Ms. Scott

2. Theme
Writing is not merely a hobby or a profession, but a creative outlet that true storytellers are compelled to use to its fullest extent.

3. Stephen King: writing as a compulsion and an addiction
Book #1: On Writing
Stephen King: writing as a compulsion and an addiction

4. Article #1: What Is Stephen King Trying To Prove?
“Stephen King is addicted to writing. It isn't a matter of liking to write or even loving it. He needs it…”

5. Book #2: Catcher In the Rye
J. D. Salinger: writing about the dangers of writing

6. Article #2: 'Rebel in the Rye': A rarely seen side of 'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger
Holden told us everything (kind of) and Salinger told us nothing

7. Louisa May Alcott: writing as an escape and a means of reanimation
Book #3: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott: writing as an escape and a means of reanimation

8. Article #3: Who was Louisa May Alcott and what is her famous book Little Women about?
Wrote for money – but also for the fame

9. Poem: 340 by Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race, Wrecked, solitary, here - And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing - then -

10. Poem Analysis Written by a poet who felt compelled to write
Never published
Told sister to burn poems
About an epiphany - brought about by writing
Morbidly serious tone