Lamott Summary: In Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts." she discusses how writing a first draft is what gets even good writers to produce their final product. Anne goes on to talk about the importance of needing that shitty first draft to then move onto the second and then the third.
King Summary: In Stephen King's "What Writing Is," he discusses the use of telepathy and how it takes us to that spot that we love to go and read or create new ideas, like with how he likes to write.
Goodman Summary: In Allegra Goodman's "Calming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work," Allegra talks about how you can't let the 'inner critic' get to you and you have to concentrate on your writing as itself and to love your material because it's your work.
Haruf Summary: In his piece, "To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool over Your Own Eyes," Kent Haruf discusses about the sentimental things we have around us that gives inspiration when we write.
Sontag Summary: In her piece, "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed," Susan Sontag discusses the difference of how people feel about reading and writing. She talks more about creativity with it.
Diaz Summary: In Junot Diaz, "Becoming a Writer," he discusses about how he became to be a writer and how it did not come easy and took him awhile, but because even when he felt no hope he went back to writing anyway.
Using These Essays: Reading their writing processes I felt that they were all unique and had a different way of telling their story. I didn't think any metaphors were the same and I felt they do struggle with rules, but as it is said all writers do. All of them have had problems like they discusses. Yes, he would have benefited from these.
MM: 1. I found it useful about writing a first "shitty" draft and moving on to a second one and from that to the third. Another was to be by sentimental things for inspiration. Third, placing my mind somewhere else to think.
2. What has changed is my conception that writing always comes easy to writers. With reading all of these pieces I have come to realize that really is not true.
I completely agree about writing a shitty first draft and how it can be useful, I also think that placing your mind somewhere else is a very interesting way to write. I thought overall you really understood these articles. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you put down for the Using These Essays response. I feel like all of the processes you listed are beneficial to helping us, as writers, with our own personal writing strategies. Nice job!
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