I am writing this blog post to give some insight into my writing process. It will be a quote collage of quotes I have hand picked from the 3 articles, “Teach Writing as a Process, not a Product.” by Don Murray, “The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers.” By Maria Popova, and “Bird by Bird: Some Writing Instructions on Writing, and Life.” By Anne Lamott.
Teaching Writing as a Process, not a Product (Don Murray) Quote 1: “Writing is the act of producing a first draft. It is the fastest part of the process, and the most frightening, for it is a commitment. When you complete a draft you know how much, and how little, you know.” -Don Murray Quote 2: “There must be time for the writing process to take place and time for it to end.” -Don Murray Quote 3: “He doesn’t test his words by a rule book, but by life. He uses language to reveal the truth to himself so that he can tell it to others.” -Don Murray The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) Quote 1: “I can work anywhere. I wrote in bedrooms and living rooms when I was growing up with my parents and my brother in a small house in Los Angeles. I worked on my typewriter in the living room, with the radio and my mother and dad and brother all talking at the same time. Later on, when I wanted to write Fahrenheit 451, I went up to UCLA and found a basement typing room where, if you inserted ten cents into the typewriter, you could buy thirty minutes of typing time.” – Ray Bradbury Quote 2: “I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. I can’t do it late in the afternoon because I’m too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages. So, I spend this hour taking things out and putting other things in. Then I start the next day by redoing all of what I did the day before, following these evening notes.” – Joan Didion Quote 3: “I write with a felt-tip pen, or sometimes a pencil, on yellow or white legal pads, that fetish of American writers. I like the slowness of writing by hand. Then I type it up and scrawl all over that. And keep on retyping it, each time making corrections both by hand and directly on the typewriter, until I don’t see how to make it any better. Up to five years ago, that was it. Since then there is a computer in my life. After the second or third draft it goes into the computer, so I don’t retype the whole manuscript anymore, but continue to revise by hand on a succession of hard-copy drafts from the computer.” -Susan Sontag Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Quote 1: “Often when you sit down to write, what you have in mind is an autobiographical novel about your childhood, or a play about the immigrant experience, or a history of oh, say—say women. But this is like trying to scale a glacier. It's hard to get your footing, and your fingertips get all red and frozen and torn up.” – Anne Lamott Quote 2: “Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts.” -Anne Lamott Quote 3: “Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it. Nor do they go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled. They do not type a few stiff warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like huskies across the snow.” -Anne Lamott Me Quote 1: “Just because the first draft is not the perfect draft, does not mean you should settle for it, or even worse give up on it completely” -Daniel Kraus Quote 2: “On your first draft do not worry about having everything work out perfectly, instead write what you feel is right, you can always go back for a second draft to fix anything that was not quite right.” -Daniel Kraus Quote 3: “Having an uninterrupted stream of thoughts to write is always important; it does not matter how long it takes you should always reserve enough time so you can make sure you can think freely without time constraints weighing you down.” -Daniel Kraus
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Sabatino
1/29/2018 03:37:40 pm
Thanks for sharing these quotes. I see a cohesiveness shared between each of the three readings as well as your own quotes about writing--specifically about the importance of writing drafts to let your thoughts flow and knowing it takes time to refine those thoughts into a finished product.
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AuthorI am a student at Delaware County Community College. This blog servers multiple purposes, the foremost being that it is to showcase many of my English Composition 1 assignments. However, it also serves to give a look into my writing processes, my personal life, and my own opinions. It is also an amazing showcase of how i have grown over the year, and how my English Composition course has influenced me within just a few short months. Archives
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