Introduction: After watching a video on reflective writing, this week I will be reflecting on my Life-choice memoir draft by answering the questions provided above. While writing my memoir I worked primarily with myself. Although working with myself was easier, I would have preferred working with someone else for revisions, proof-reading, and other peer-to-peer evaluations. Before and during the process of writing, I referred back to text messages with my family concerning the event. The rhetorical mode that I used in my writing was narrative and the genre was non-fiction memoir. Although it wasn’t the best approach, I did not give myself the right amount of time to confidently finish my draft. Because I was on a crunch for time, I was able to get thoughts out quicker but was not able to reflect enough and couldn’t figure out a good conclusion. The first half of my memoir draft was written in my room at home. I decided to change settings and write the second half at the Chester County Library, which is one of my favorite and most productive work places. The environment of the Chester County Library works so well for me because of the people surrounding me and the quit environment. I wrote about my chosen topic because it is the most current event that my family is going through. The whole situation is taking a large toll on my family and when it comes to opinions we are all on different pages. Despite this, it was a good choice of topics. While writing this narrative, I felt confident in my choice of topics but it also helped me put myself in other people’s shoes. I saw a more objective view of the situation, rather than my firm opinions on it. Although I don’t have any “if only” moments, I can see some coming as I continue to revise. To revise, I will be primarily working with my boyfriend, who usually proof-reads and revises grammar.
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Introduction: The focus of this blog post is to educate the consumers through different writing processes by three well known authors: Maria Popova, Anne Lammot and Ray Bradbury. I co-authored these processes with Siani M. Davis, Dominique Candidi, David Miller and Ashley Coley. The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) Quote 1: " I’m a serious cook — and pretend to be normal. I play sane — Good morning! Fine, thank you. And you? And I go home."-Maya Angelou Quote 2: "I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10km or swim for 1500m (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9:00 pm. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism."-Haruki Murakami Quote 3: “Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this”(Bradbury 2). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) Quote 1: "It reminds me that all I have to do is write down as much as I can see through a one-inch picture frame"(Lamott 4). Quote 2: "writing is, for some of us, the latch that keeps the door of the pen closed, keeps those crazy ravenous dogs contained"(Lamott 8). Quote 3: “Practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts”(Lamott 5) Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury) Quote 1: “if you are a writer, or would hope to be one, similar lists, dredged out of the lopside of your brain, might well help you discover YON, even as I flopped around and finally found me”(Bradbury 19). Quote 2: "But along through those years I began to make lists of titles, to put down long lines of nouns. These lists were the provocations, finally, that caused my better stuff to surface"(Bradbury 17). Quote 3: “The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effordor a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping”(Bradbury 13). Our Processes 1: Listen to music while you write for more clarity. 2: Write an hour and if nothing is coming then take a break for an hour. If your mind allows the words to flow during that hour, then write another hour and so on until it stops. 3. Write in a calm atmosphere. |