Frankly, I'm not sure I make it into the personal essayist mold as well as many of the others in the class. I don't know if I'm really cut out for that sort of thing, but if I was I believe I fit into category X probably better than most. That is the category of writing based on learning and one's own readings.
I have always assumed that if I ever took the time to write much essaying it would be either philosophy or theology. Much of both of these subjects requires reading other texts and either responding to them and offering one's own opinion or attempting to create one's opinion by blending ideas from many sources, which are both things I try to do often.
I've always been somewhat fascinated with the idea of the monomyth. Which is in a way a blending of all kinds of mythology to see which are true, or at least which are the most universal. I've always wanted to try and trace through myths and connect them in one way or another to my own Christian faith. Not so much to debunk or discredit other beliefs, but more to see how similar they really are at the core to better understand others and perhaps help them better understand me and my beliefs. I think that's important.
I'm far more interested in writing fiction than essays, but even my fiction is often based much on things I've read before like the Bible and many of C.S. Lewis' works as well as some influences from Don Quixote, Hemingway, Tolkien, and other various writers. So more likely than not they would be influences on my personal essays as well.
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