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After reading most of What It Is I decided that it would be a good idea to attend Lynda Barry’s talk on campus...and boy was I overwhelmed (in a good way) by Barry’s personality! For the next 90 minutes I was entertained by Barry’s awkward yet hysterical performance. Besides learning some new jokes Lynda Barry was successful in teaching me a thing or two about writing. As a writer, Lynda argued that motion is key. By this she meant to say that it is important to keep our hands moving while writing. According to Barry, in order to prevent writer’s block we have to make the difficult decision of trading in our MacBooks for old-fashioned pen and paper. Writing with these simple tools will not only keep our hands in motion but it will provide us with a visual writing experience. Seeing words as images on a paper will undoubtedly inspire us to write more and more. With that said, I think I will take Lynda’s advice and write my next paper with good ol’ pen and paper.