When the word “community” is heard or seen it can have many different meanings depending on the person that is interpreting the word. When I hear the word “community”, I think about a group of people that live in the same area or have something in common. It can either be people that make up a neighborhood that share the community pool or it can be a group of students in a class. To me I think that the members in a community can always be able to relate to problems or conflicts and have the ability to help each other out if they really wanted or needed to. Communities actually play a crucial part in writing. When writers want to write a new story or paper they go to other people that can give them advice on how to make it better. The writer could also want to target a specific age group. If they want to target an age group they have to write about things that appeal to what is popular to that group. Another way communities are important in writing is that a community of people can all be influenced by something they read. In my home town there were articles online about a flesh eating virus in the water at the beach and once people read it they were afraid to go in the water and the beaches were empty, it was a good warning that kept people safe, but even now that the water is safe people still are scared to go in it because of the scary things they read. A community can be influenced by a work of writing and a work of writing can also be influenced by a community.