The event took place during Sophie Kerr Weekend on April 1, 2011. During this event Natasha Trethewey discussed her work, her life, and her writing process. Going into the event I had an idea about what I was going to hear. After reading her book Beyond Katarina I felt like I understood why she wrote. To me it seemed like her work was a way to coop with what happened to her and her family before and after hurricane Katarina. I found this to be false, in a way. While describing her writing she talked about how she does not have a strait road that she follows when writing, in fact it just comes out when it wants to. Through this process of writing she describes it less as cooping and more towards a road to discover. One thing that stuck out to me was how she stated that she never realized that she never wrote her bother until she began writing this book. I learned that writing is not a straight plan and more of a free flowing of thoughts that help you uncover things about yourself that you might have not known before. Hearing this it made me think of my own writing. Sometimes I struggle to plan out what I want to say that I get completely frustrated with the paper all together. I feel like I showed practice more free writing. I need to stop thinking so much and just write and in the end I might find something I never would have thought of.
