The roundtable writing process is the idea that all thoughts are equal and that they should all be written as equals. A roundtable is just what it sounds like, a round table where people can share thoughts equally without any being judged. This idea is relevant to writing because it allows creativity to flow and not be interrupted by criticisms. “Don’t look back. Yes, the draft needs fixing. But first it needs writing.” -Don Murray
“No matter how careful our criticisms, they do not help the student since when we teach composition we are not teaching a product, we are teaching a process.” - Don Murray “Rewriting is reconsideration of subject, form, and audience. It is researching, rethinking, redesigning, rewriting” -Don Murray “Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot.” -Mary Karr “Rewriting on the page is safer then revision in, say, painting, where you can paint past a good place and wreck a canvas. Performers can’t revise at all. A writer can always go back to an earlier draft. The point is to have more curiosity about possible forms the work could take than sense of self-protection for your ego.” - Mary Karr “When it works, it’s like a spell has been cast. For me, it’s less the old world that comes in clear as the old me—how I felt, what I schemed about, who I lied to. But the writing’s seldom pretty—the sentences are just banal.” - Mary Karr “All I am going to do right now, for example, is write that one paragraph that sets the story in my hometown” - Anne Lamott “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make it the whole trip that way.” - Anne Lamott “It reminds me that all i have to do is write down as much as i can see through a one inch picture frame” Anne Lamott “While writing let your mind be open not closed off” - Jason Merth “Sometimes it's not when you are writing that you think of the best ideas” - Jason Merth “See where the words take you, not where you take the words” - Jason Merth
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The Proust Questionnaire is a list of thirty four questions, these thirty four questions when answered, are said to reveal a person's true nature. The proust questionnaire was created by novelist Marcel Proust. These questions range from “what makes you happy?” all the way to “what is your greatest fear? __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?
My idea of perfect happiness involves having no worries and not having to work another day in my life. I also would like to see my friends and family taken care of. __2.__What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear in life is being alone. I do not like the idea of being without my friends or family, sometimes even when people are with me or around me I feel alone. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I deplore my laziness and my inability to function in the mornings, sometimes I find it very difficult to get up for work or for school even when I know that not showing up will only affect my negatively in the end. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? My least favorite trait people show is ignorance. When people are ignorant to facts or block them out with emotions. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? I most admire my grandfather. I most admire him because he was raised with little money, however with hard work was able to pick himself up and become successful. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? My greatest extravagance is and always will be my car. I originally purchased it for roughly $4000, but over the past 2 years I put closer to $3000 more into it. __7.__What is your current state of mind? As I am writing this my current state of mind is stressed. There is a lot of homework and work to do. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Being temperament, or having a lot of self control. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? To spare a person's feelings. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? My freckles, I wish I had a more even complexion. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? I don't think I really hate anyone or anything. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to pick themselves up even when they have been beaten down or hurt. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Their ability to show and express emotion so openly and vividly. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I overuse “like” too much. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? My current greatest love of my life is myself. __16.__When and where were you happiest? My happiest place is in Black Lake New York. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? I wish I was able to test better, it would make school a lot easier. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? How easily I get distracted, I wish I could start a project and just finish it without getting distracted as easily as I do. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? So far in my life my greatest achievement is graduating high school. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? Not sure. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I would most want to live at Black Lake New York, or in Seattle. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My most treasured possession is my car. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Not sure __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation that I have worked so far is working at starbucks. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? __26.__What do you most value in your friends? Their loyalty __27.__Who are your favorite writers? My favorite writers are Neal Shusterman, Rick Riordan, and Alexander Gordon Smith __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? My current fictional hero is Rowan aka Scythe Lucifer from the series scythe written by Neal Shusterman, he is my hero because he is willing to sacrifice his eternal life to save not only one person but to also take down a corrupt system. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? Police officers because they risk their lives every day to save people that they do not even know. __31.__What are your favorite names? Oliver, and Elizabeth __32.__What is it that you most dislike? People being ignorant or selfish towards other people __33.__What is your greatest regret? My greatest regret is not trying as hard as I could have or should have in high school, especially now knowing that if I had just tried I would have succeeded much more than I have now. Not trying then set me back a few steps now. __34.__How would you like to die? I want to die doing something courageous or helping another person. |
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