Writers on Writing

In his article, "Writers on Writing" (2000), Kent Haruf explains the nature of writing, saying it is a spontaneous, strange act that must be approached in the same way. He gives many examples of how different authors use strange techniques to influence their writing, from writing in your underwear to on top of refrigerators to in your coal room in the basement of your house with no windows. He gives us these strange examples and tells us of his methods of writing in order to insinuate that writing is an imaginative, spontaneous and bizarre and must be treated as such when writing anything. Based on his content of the article and the teaching tone, his target audience is most likely new or inexperienced writers.