Blog 3: Porter

When writing as an individual you are using creative thoughts that may seem like the product of your imagination. But what Porter suggests is that all of these creative thoughts are products of outside influence, therefore it is dangerous to label one's writing as individual and isolated. Porter even says, "the creative writer is the creative borrower" and uses Thomas Jefferson's loose authorship of the Declaration of Independence as fuel for his argument. To imagine writing as heroic is exceptionally dangerous because when one starts to write for heroic reasons, it is easy to become lost in the intertextuality of the writing.