Today's blog is on quotes that I have taken from other author's research about the writing process. In addition, I have also provided my own response to the writing process. Three quotes from Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray) : Quotes 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. And the writing of this first draft rough, searching, unfinished may take as little as one percent of the writer’s time”, Don Murray. Quote 2: “ 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”, Don Murray. Quote 3: “ How do you motivate your student to pass through this process, perhaps even pass through it again and again on the same piece of writing? First by shutting up. When you are talking he isn’t writing. And you don’t learn a process by talking about it, but by doing it”, Don Murray. Three quotes from The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) : Quote 1: “ I write with a felt-tip pen, or sometimes a pencil, on yellow or white legal pads, that fetish of American writers”, Susan Sontag . Quote 2: “ I’m always in a hurry to get going, though in general I dislike starting the day. I first have tea and then, at about ten o’clock, I get under way and work until one. Then I see my friends and after that, at five o’clock, I go back to work and continue until nine. I have no difficulty in picking up the thread in the afternoon. When you leave, I’ll read the paper or perhaps go shopping. Most often it’s a pleasure to work”, Simone de Beauvoir. Quote 3: “ When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. 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. Three quotes from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott): Quote 1: “ Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve it.” Quote 2: “ there are probably a number of ways to tell your story right, and someone else may be able to tell you whether or you’ve found one of these ways. Quote 3: “ Criticism is very hard to take.” My response and I quote…
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