Question

Write a comment about the following quote : "Writing a book is like clock making"(at least 100 words) ?

Answer 1

A few thoughts...

Explanation:

This looks like my least favourite kind of Socratic question - a homework question that seeks a creative answer. Rather than provide a neatly turned out answer, let's try to think this through together.

Here are some things we might notice that writing a book and making a clock have in common:

• It is a creative act.
• It requires prior experience on similar but simpler tasks.
• It requires planning and design.
• The finished product has both an overall structure and purpose.
• The finished product contains smaller structures that fit together to achieve the overall purpose.
• There are many different choices of material, shape, size, etc.
• It is possible to use well established patterns or to innovate.
• It is likely that some people will like and others dislike the finished product.

So there are a few ideas. You might try to think of some more. From here we would want to reformulate a selection of the bullet points as a coherent piece of prose.

Over to you...