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By clicking here , you may gain access to the Prezi that I created for my Independent Learning Project. I utilized this tool to create a review or study guide for my upcoming exam in my STA 1013 course. The online program proved to me a fun and efficient one with entertaining animations that may be useful in a future teaching career.

jenavieve verley qqc #1

Question: Could the shitty first draft be actually better because it's almost a purer/more natural and honest form of writing? Quote: "(...) the critics would be sitting on my shoulders, commenting like cartoon characters. They'd be pretending to snore, or rolling their eyes at my overwrought descriptions."

SFD quote and question

For my reading I read "shitty first drafts", and for my question I was wondering, "If you had to write a first draft for a story or an article, how would you try to overcome writer's block when it hits?".  I also thought this quote was very interesting in the reading, when the author said "We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.  The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time" (Lamott 2).  This was interesting because it changed my opinion greatly about writers, whom I thought found writing to be very easy, but it turns out they're very similar to the rest of us, and they too struggle with writers block all the time.

QQC #1 Shitty First Drafts Question

Why is it that when we allow our minds to think like children our imagination flourishes more than when we hold ourselves to mature, more adult standards?

QQC #1 Shitty First Drafts Quote

“You just let this childlike part of you channel whatever voices and visions come through and onto the page. […] Just get it all down on paper because there may be something great in those six crazy pages that you would never have gotten to by more rational, grown-up means.” 

SFD Question

Does the magic really exist or do we always have the ability to write amazing thoughts down on the first try?

SFD Quote

"It's over, I'd think calmly. I'm not going to be able to get the magic to work this time." -Anne Lamott