I felt both works had a very dark tone. "Writing From The Center" criticized the typical life of a writer and Annie Dillard emphasized the point. Annie Dillard barley used colorful or joyous words to describe her life in solitude. Instead the author often even described the life of the writer as "colorless to the point of sensory deprivation(pg 3)." Isn't it necessary for writing to have some form of passion or emotion behind it? And yet she makes her profession seem lifeless. The author not only gave me the impression that she was suffering from severe depression. Words expressing the feeling of loneliness and hopeless failure were used throughout the beginning of the piece. She even described several incidence involving death such as the moth drowning(pg 5) and she stated: "I walked out on the beach unseeing and fell back in the door, sick, dead, dying(pg6 bottom right)."
I was so relieved when the tone of the text finally changed to a more positive aspect closer to the end. If you feel nothing towards your own work, how are others supposed to?