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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. Mark Twain
Hello this week blog is about writing process roundtable. One Summer Friday afternoon in I had a important meeting at Starbucks. I was going to meet up with three authors that I really look up to I was going to interview them about writing why it is important to write as well as why and how they write their books. It was around 5pm and I was outside drinking coffee in the coffee table when Don Murray, Mary Karr, Anne Lamott arrive and sat down. I started off by asking.
Don Murray Me Should the student have a opportunity to write a draft or should they start the paper without draft ? Answer Don Murray "Implication No. 4. The student should have the opportunity to write all the drafts necessary for him to discover what he has to say on this particular subject. Each new draft, of course, is counted as equal to a new paper. You are not teaching a product, you are teaching a process" Me : Should you give time to write a paper to a student ? Don Murray "Implication No. 7. There must be time for the writing process to take place and time for it to end. The writer must work within the stimulating tension of unpressured time to think and dream and stare out windows, and pressured time—the deadline—to which the writer must deliver." Mary Karr me What should you do if you have zero's pages but irrage to finish the paper or the story what should you do ? Mary "In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot. You zigzag, and in the low moments, you just have to keep plodding on--saying the next small thing about which you feel strongly, trying to nestle down into that single instant of clear memory you know without shadow of doubt is both true and important to who you’ve become." Me : How long does it take to edit a book or paper how much effort is used ? Mary "For me, the last 20 percent of a book’s improvement takes 95 percent of the effort--all in the editing. I can honestly say not one page I’ve ever published appears anywhere close to how it came out in first draft. A poem might take sixty versions. I am not much of a writer, but I am a stubborn little bulldog of a reviser." Me can you rewrite paper or book is it okay ? "Rewriting on the page is safer than revision in, say, painting, where you can paint past a good place and wreck a canvas. Performers can’t revise at all. A writer can always go back to an earlier draft. The point is to have more curiosity about possible forms the work could take than sense of self-protection for your ego." Anne LamottMe How should I do a plot ? Anne
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