Do you suck at writing, like I do? I mean dreadfully suck? You see, my forte’ is math, because of my line of work as a financial counselor, I’m required to be exceptionally proficient with numbers. So, you see this English Composition I course may prove to be a little challenging but never have I ever backed down from a challenge and I ain’t about to start now, “Yes Professor Mangini, I said ain’t!” So for this assignment we had to provide quotes from the following three readings as well as my own writing process.
· Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) · The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) · Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) Quote 1. "Instead of teaching finished writing, we should teach unfinished writing, and glory in its unfinishedness." Quote 2. "It is the responsibility of the student to explore his own world with his own language, to discover his own meaning. The teacher supports but does not direct this expedition to the student's own truth." Quote 3. "The students are individuals who must explore the writing process in their own way, some fast, some slow, whatever it takes for them, within the limits of the course deadlines, to find their own way to their own truth." The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) Quote 1. "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." ( E.B. White) Quote 2. "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.” (Susan Sontag) Quote 3. “Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.” (William Gibson) Quote 4. “You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.” (Ernest Hemingway) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Quote 1. “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” (E.L. Doctorow) Quote 2. “For me, and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” (Anne Lamott) Quote 3. “I don’t think you have the time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have the time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect. You don’t want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water.” (Anne Lamott) My process 1. Ask the children what their needs are so that there are no interruptions. 2. Eat a good meal, I cannot think when I am hungry. 3. And maybe accidently eat some cinnamon toast crunch infused edibles. Accidently, maybe.
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