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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Gabriella Mendez
1/31/2019 08:48:59 am
I like this quote “Sometimes it's not when you are writing that you think of the best ideas” - Jason Merth. I can relate to this because when writing you never have the best ideas, but when you go out and experience the word you can think of some of the best things to write about.
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