Homework #10

Summary's
In Anne Lamott article Shitty First Drafts she discusses that it is important to write your first draft and write complete crap that no one reads and than you second draft is and okay draft but it still needs editing and than your third draft is the final draft.
In Stephen King's article What Writing Is he talks about using the idea of telepathy when writing so that you can think about other things while writing to pull in different ideas into your paper.
In Allegra Goodman article Claming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work she talks about how that when you are writing a paper and that you need to pick out the good voices in your head to put into your paper and than that you can sorta out the bad ones in your head and just go with your gut. Confidence is key in writing the best paper you can.
In Kent Haruf's article To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool over Your Own Eyes he talks about how unique the writing process is and that everyone has a different writing style or a way that they write.
In Susan Sontag's article Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 & 3 as Needed when you write a paper you shouldn't just stick to the traditional write, read, revise. You should write one paper and than write another paper and than you should pick the best one.
In Junot Diaz's article Becoming a Writer he talks about his story of becoming a writer and how at times he gave up and that he got down on himself but in the end he prevailed and became a good writer.
Using These Essays
With all 6 of these different articles I did not find any of their writing processes similar. They all have different styles of how they write and they all struggled at some point to get through there writings but now they are successful writers. Yes, Tony would benefit from reading these articles. Tony did struggle with writers block like Diaz did but other than that I couldn't find anything else.
Meta Moments
1. One thing I found useful in these articles is that Lamott says to write three drafts to weed out your paper and write the best paper. Another thing I found useful is that Haruf says that everyone has a unique writing process so if you have some weird ritual that you do before writing a paper it may help you write a better paper since we are all different. Also in King's article about using telegraphy while writing that way when you space out into a different place if you can pull ideas into your paper from other places in your head than do so.
2. I will take into consideration some of the information I have taken from reading all of these articles. But a lot of the information they talked about I do some of and have considered and or heard about already. Writing is a process and as you get older and mature theoretical you should improve your writing skills.
Response
All of these articles are very similar and they all tie into the different writing concepts people use to write a good paper. Reading all of these articles was useful to me considering our next paper is about how we write a paper. Reading this articles helped me to see that people do so many different things to write a good paper.