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Writing Process, prewrite, draft, revise, edit, publish
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post Mar 20 2008, 10:57 AM
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The Writing Process (to the best of my understanding) consists of 5 steps:

Prewriting Research, notetaking, brainstorming, outlining, ....

Drafting Writing

Revising Adding, Removing, Moving, Changing major parts such as whole sentences, paragraphs or chapters

Editing checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, captilization, ...

Publishing Make the work public in some way


Do you use any of this process in your writing?

If so, which parts do you use? How do you use them? How do they help you to be an effective writer?

If not, which parts don't you use? Why do you find them unhelpful? What do you do instead?



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post May 19 2008, 02:29 PM
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I tend to do better when I am not given the leisure to worry about how each sentence is going to be laid down. Nor do outlines and I get along very well.

My best work seems to come during the crazy and hectic space of NaNoWriMo. I start with a basic idea, a few characters figured out, where they should be going, and what I want the outcome to be. The rest of it just seems to happen as it unfolds. In fact, I find that the characters dictate much of the story to me- they will change their background, minor characters muscle in to become major players, and others will bow out at (what I consider to be) the most inopportune times. Still, it tends to wind itself up in a rather satisfying manner.

Of course, there is revising and editing to be done on such a creation, but the basic bones and a good part of the flesh are already in place on my creation. It's really more a case of "dressing it up" to meet the world.


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