In his article "WRITERS ON WRITING; To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool Over Your Own Eyes" (2000), Kent Haruf asserts that many writers' ideas and themes of novels are sometimes blurred by outside distractions. Haruf supports his claim about these distractions by using other authors that use unorthodox ways of writing novels. For example, "Eudora Welty has said that she straight-pinned pieces of her stories together on the dining room table, as though she were pinning together parts of a dress". His purpose is to show readers that there is no correct way to write a novel. By letting the brain wander without outside distractions or what is commonly accepted in writing is when spontaneous, creative, and very meaningful stories are created. Haruf seems to encourage the reader by showing that the most successful authors have unorthodox ways and that not everything needs to be done in a straight cut manner. His tone is very welcoming and helps the reader see it is okay to have a different means of doing things.