This is my second blog assignment about the Writing Process which includes the conversation of three professional authors with me. It was 10 pm I just clock out and rushed home to go end my Composition 1 assignment with was due tonight . I was so exhausted ,I have been behind my class homework as I had to work double and completing my job training all week ,in top of all it was snowing as I did not trust my vehicle in the snow. I decided to call a Uber for my commute back home.I tried to call an Uber X but the price was too much for me so I decided to do an Uber pool. In the Uber, I pooled the driver asked me how was my day I responded ok and that I was in the rush to get home.As I checked on my phone to identified those persons I was pooling with I noticed that I was in the presence of(Don Murray),(Mary Karr),and (Anne Lamott). I realized that is the perfect chance to get help on this assignment.
I first asked them if they don’t mind helping a desperate student on her writing assignment . Don Murray laughed and asked me what is about. I sat well in my seat and said that it was about the writing process. Don Murray started “ The writing process itself can be divided into three stages: prewriting, writing, and rewriting’’ “Writing is the act of producing a first draft. ” “the fastest part of the process, and the most frightening, for it is a commitment”. I was listening carefully to him as for me the first draft is the step where I can spend hours and hours. Mary smiled and completed “In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor”. “Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot.” After hearing Mary Karr words, I started to gain a little confidence as I was not the only one whose stocked at the beginning even the professionals.What advice can you give me to be a better writer? Mary responded “Since I was always interested in how to be a writer, I also gobbled up literary biographies—Walter Jackson Bate on Keats and Coleridge; Enid Starkie on Baudelaire and Rimbaud; Diane Middlebrook on Anne Sexton; Ian Hamilton on Robert Lowell; Paul Mariani on William Carlos Williams. Getting a sense of the person’s time in history often helped me to understand their styles in that context—what literary pressures and fashions and values of the day were forging their pages.” In addition Ann completed with “The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth”. “We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are” and let me end with this” and let me tell you this “ Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it”. I thank all of them and got out of the Uber and went to complete the assignment.
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