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    Writing Stages-Writers Block

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    This document discusses writing stages, writer's block, and strategies to avoid it. It describes the typical writing process as having prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing stages. Writer's block is defined as the inability to be creative or productive. Famous writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Adele discuss experiencing writer's block when they were unable to find topics to write about or felt too happy. The document recommends treating writing like having four personalities - the madman, architect, carpenter, and judge - to generate ideas freely, structure them, refine the writing, and edit. It also suggests using the index card method to write concise summaries that could stand alone.

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    This document discusses writing stages, writer's block, and strategies to avoid it. It describes the typical writing process as having prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing stages. Writer's block is defined as the inability to be creative or productive. Famous writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Adele discuss experiencing writer's block when they were unable to find topics to write about or felt too happy. The document recommends treating writing like having four personalities - the madman, architect, carpenter, and judge - to generate ideas freely, structure them, refine the writing, and edit. It also suggests using the index card method to write concise summaries that could stand alone.

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    This document discusses writing stages, writer's block, and strategies to avoid it. It describes the typical writing process as having prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing stages. Writer's block is defined as the inability to be creative or productive. Famous writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Adele discuss experiencing writer's block when they were unable to find topics to write about or felt too happy. The document recommends treating writing like having four personalities - the madman, architect, carpenter, and judge - to generate ideas freely, structure them, refine the writing, and edit. It also suggests using the index card method to write concise summaries that could stand alone.

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    Writing Stages-Writers Block

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    Arvin Antonio Ortiz
    This document discusses writing stages, writer's block, and strategies to avoid it. It describes the typical writing process as having prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing stages. Writer's block is defined as the inability to be creative or productive. Famous writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Adele discuss experiencing writer's block when they were unable to find topics to write about or felt too happy. The document recommends treating writing like having four personalities - the madman, architect, carpenter, and judge - to generate ideas freely, structure them, refine the writing, and edit. It also suggests using the index card method to write concise summaries that could stand alone.

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    WRITING STAGES,

    WRITER’S BLOCK &


    HOW TO AVOID IT
    •Writing is a non-linear process.
    •Different writers have different
    processes.
    Writing Stages
    •Prewriting
    •Drafting
    •Revising and Rewriting
    •Editing
    WRITER’S BLOCK
    What is writer’s block?
    • Writer’s block is the loss of ability to
    produce any creative or non-creative work
    as though someone or something sapped
    one’s creative juices.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    • 2017 Nobel Laureate for
    Literature
    • Author, “The Remains of the
    Day”
    Adele
    “I found it impossible for
    a while. I didn't know
    what I wanted to write
    about….What's wrong is I
    wasn't sad.
    "I've never been happier.
    And I've never been
    healthier. So I'm good.”
    4 PERSONALITIES IN 1
    PERSON
    4 Personalities
    •Madman
    •Architect
    •Carpenter
    •Judge

    Betty S. Flowers
    Madman
    •Full of ideas
    •Writes crazily
    •Gets carried away by enthusiasm or
    anger
    Architect
    •The thinking is large, organizational,
    paragraph-level thinking
    •Doesn’t worry about sentence structure
    Carpenter
    • Arranges the large chunks of ideas in a
    logical sequence, making sure each sentence
    is clearly written, contributes to the
    argument of the paragraph, and leads
    logically and gracefully to the next sentence.
    Judge
    •Judge inspects: punctuation, spelling,
    grammar, tone, etc.
    INDEX-CARD METHOD
    Index-Card Method
    • Suggested by Ross Guberman, author of “Point Made: How
    to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates”
    • “Buy a stack of index cards. Take one card, and look at the
    lined side. Imagine that you are limited to the lines you see
    and cannot fill up more space even if you want to. Now take
    a pen, and write a three-sentence message to the judge, client,
    or party. What would you want your readers to remember if
    they kept your card but lost everything else?”

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