Your Name: Olga Sanchez Week of 1 through week 3 Chapters Read This Week: Shitty First Drafts Pages

Read This Week: 2

Todays Date: 01/14/14

Codes: (Q) Question; (C) Connect; (P) Predict; (CL) Clarify; (R) Reflect; (E) Evaluate

Passages From Text

All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

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Response and Comments

Page 1 (Q)(CL) I believe on this paragraph the Paragra author is talking about herself but I am not ph 1 100 percent sure. It doesnt follow on the next sentence or paragraph that it says is her but I just assume she is talking about herself. When she puts the sentence at the end of the paragraph where she is talking about herself to her friend the priest make me assume that she was talking about her self. Even with that am still not sure. Page 1 (R) (C) On this Quotation that I pick it made Paragra me think that sometimes or many times I ph 4 could say millions of people over think every detail they must do. Sometimes opening your self to different ideas or just being open helps you in life. On her case it help her opening her mind like a child to have more ideas and not over think on how is she writing. (C) I believe that the same way as this author feels on this paragraph about beginning to write its the most difficult things to do. I myself that am not an author or write much find it the most dreadful thing and made me want to quit when I havent even started. Eventually at the end you figure it out which then it comes more natural. Page 2 (C)(R) I think a lot of people when they Paragra come into a rough patch in life we all ph 7 eventually think about get creamed by a car.

You just let this childlike part of you channel whatever voices and visions come through and onto the page.

Even after I'd been doing this for years, panic would set in. I'd try to write a lead, but instead I'd write a couple of dreadful sentences, XX them out, try again, XX everything out, and then feel despair and worry settle on my chest like an xray apron.

The whole thing would be so long and incoherent and hideous that for the rest of the day I'd obsess about getting creamed by a car before I could write a decent second draft.

Passages From Text

A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft -- you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft -- you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy.

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Response and Comments

(P)(R) I like how the authors friend describes on how to write a somewhat Page 2 perfect draft. What I seen in many cases no Paragra matter what kind of work if your write, or ph 10 create an art piece we are our worst critics.

Your Name: Olga Sanchez Week of 1 through 3

Todays Date: 01/14/14

Chapters Read This Week: Desperation writing by peter elbow Pages Read This Week: 2
Codes: (Q) Question; (C) Connect; (P) Predict; (CL) Clarify; (R) Reflect; (E) Evaluate Passages From Text Page #s Response and Comments

Twinges, hindrance, utterance, vicinity

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(Q) The author in this article had too many words that I didnt know what they were and it made it a little more challenging to read. (C) (R) This specific paragraph and much throughout the article made me think as if he was talking about a cure for a disease or illness. In a way it is a disease once it sets on your mind your doom without a doubt until you decide to move on. (R) (E) I agree with the authors in this paragraph as far as avoid over thinking on what you are doing and just get to writing on what ever comes to mind. (C)(CL) I think this would be call free writing or it could be similar to it cause if you are writing like this it means that you have let yourself loose.

The first thing is to admit your condition: Because of some mood or event or whatever, your mind is incapable of anything that could be called thought. So admit this. Avoid anything more than one feeling, perception, or thought. Simply write as much as possible.

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If, on the other hand, all that writing Page 2 didnt have useful material in it, it means that your writing wasnt loose, drifting, quirky, jerky, associative enough. This time try especially to let things simply remind you of things that are seemingly crazy or unrelated. Follow these old associations. Your best perceptions and thoughts are Page 2 always going to be tied up in whatever is really occupying you, and that is also where your energy is. You may end up writing a love poem-or a hate poem-in one of those little piles while the other piles will finally turn into a lab report on data processing or whatever you have to write about.

(C) The meaning that the author is trying to say is that you can write just about everything with out limiting yourself of just one specific topic or one idea.