Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. In this blog, I will be writing about how my writing process improved within the course of one semester in my English Composition 1 class.
Beginning this course, I thought that the blogs were going to be such a waste of my time. I thought their main purpose was to keep me busy for that class when I had no other assignments. I definitely thought wrong. The blogs have tremendously helped my writing process, in more ways than one. Each blog had its own way to help the me write the required pieces for the course. Such as, all the "life choice" blogs, helped me with my decision on my Life-Choice Memoir. Also, the blog, Annotated Bibliography, helped organize my research paper with the sources and why I wanted to use the sources. This helped me because if I forgot why I was going to use that source, I could look back on that bibliography and know. I plan to do this again when I have more papers in the future. Not only did the blogs help me, but they also taught me a new way of writing. If I write down every thing I know about something, and why I thought that, or just anything that would help me with the paper, I could easily remember. This class inspired me to write more, and that no matter what I wrote, I could always revise it. It didn't have to be perfect for it to be finished. As my quote calendar said, "Strive for progress, not perfection".
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Introduction: In this blog post, I am listing quotes from 3 selected articles. They are: "The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers" by Maria Popova, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott, and "Zen in the Art of Writing" by Ray Bradbury. I have pulled 3 quoted from each piece and will list my own three about my own writing processes.
The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) 1. “Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. That’s one reason I go home to Sacramento to finish things. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.” Joan Didion 2. “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” E.B. White 3. “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.” Haruki Murakami Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) 1. “…I finally notice the one-inch picture frame that I put on my desk to remind me of short assignments. It reminds me that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one-inch picture frame” Anne Lamott 2. “Few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” Anne Lamott 3. “There are probably a number of ways to tell your story right, and someone else may be able to tell you whether or not you’ve found one of these ways.’ Anne Lamott Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury) 1. “In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth dead falling or tiger-trapping.” Ray Bradbury 2. “It was only when I began to discover the treats and tricks that came with word association that I began to find some true way through the minefields of imitation. I finally figured out that if you are going to step on a live mine, make it your own. Be blown up, as it were, by your own delights and despairs.” Ray Bradbury 3. “I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a list to be made. Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness. […] Your Thing at the top of your stairs in your own private night … may well come down.” My Own Quotes 1. Open your mind to different occasions to see the best fit 2. Receive constructive criticism to help you improve 3. Drafts aren't a bad thing, they are multiple ways that you have gotten better |
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