Miller Response

            When Miller writes, she uses almost a different persona in her writing than you see in real life.  Her identity changes when she writes and becomes a different person, her writing makes her seem older and more mature than she really is in real life.  She does not use herself in her writing because she does not want her text to imitate her, but she wants it to create new parts of her.  Miller uses her writings to create extensions of herself, parts that were not visible before but now she wants to spread to everyone.  I think it is important to show different sides and extensions of yourself in your writing and it is a way of using your voice.  These extensions are coming from Miller, so they are still a part of her voice even if the extensions are not a significant part of her.  Miller is trying to say that writers must use their voice, but that voice can change from your setting and environment around you or any influences you have; it is still your voice, even if it is only an extension of yourself.

            This relates to Bazerman’s idea of the “spot” which is when we are demanded to write and we must write whether we want to or not.  Miller’s concept is more that when we write, we are influenced by the setting around us and mood we are in and that changes the way we express our voice.  Miller varies in the way that she rights, either she writes down a lot in one burst or she slowly takes her time carefully writing, thinking as she is writing.  She also explains that our backgrounds have an impact on the way that we right because we are expected to right in a certain way and that should be our voice.  These extensions that come out of us, constructs a new voice that is a part of her and Miller explains when she is writing, she is that voice that is in her writing.  She is in the moment of her writing and that is her voice.

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