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Engage Your Inner Writer(s) Cecelia Munzenmaier School of Life
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You will learn ways to develop four writing modes avoiding blocks by balancing the modes
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Standard model Get ideas Draft Revise Polish
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Writer(s)? Original Star Trek Spock reason McCoy intuition Kirk executive function
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Your writing energies Creator Planner Drafter Editor
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Flowers’ model
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Or if you prefer…FlowersVariation Architect Lunatic What if… ? Why not…? What’s the plan? Build it! Clean it up! Carpenter Judge or Janitor Architect Artist Carpenter Inspector Role
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Each of these four characters needs time alone on the stage. If you shortchange any of them, your writing will suffer. Garner (1997) Words of wisdom
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Enemies and allies Natural enemies Natural enemies Natural allies Natural allies
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Which is strongest? Describe any conflicts you experience between the four energies. If you wish, share strategies that you find helpful in resolving conflicts. Your writing energies Creator Drafter Planner Editor
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Cultivating the Creator Separate drafting and editing. Focus on capturing ideas. Promise the Judge a chance to comment later.
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Focus on potential
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Trust order will emerge
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Cultivating the Planner Follow a model. Create an outline or other overview. Use linear logic or web thinking, whichever works for you.
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Step- or web-thinker? Follow a model. Create an outline or other overview. Use linear logic or web thinking, whichever works for you.
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Cultivating the Carpenter Separate writing and editing. Create the draft. Go with the flow. Leave gaps for later.
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Write, then edit
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Tolerate the mess It ain’t where you start, it is where you finish. Gen. Colin Powell
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Cultivating the Judge Judge = “inspector for quality control” Garner
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Cultivating the Judge First, deal with global issues. Have you said what you wanted to say? Are things in the right order? Then switch to your readers’ point of view. Have you anticipated questions? Will readers understand? Do they have a reason to care? Finally, fix errors.
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Do a “dental draft” 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. 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. Anne Lamott
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Do you plan to try any of these strategies? Do you have others to recommend? What advice do you have about cultivating the Drafter? the Editor? Your writing energies Drafter Editor Creator Planner
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(Flowers, n.d.) (Garner, 1997) (Munzenmaier, 2010) You Genealogy References Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Madman, architect, carpenter, judge: Roles and the writing process. Retrieved from https://webspace.utexas.edu/ cherwitz/www/ie/b_flowers.html Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publicati ons/barnews/nov08-garner.htm
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Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Madman, architect, carpenter, judge: Roles and the writing process. Retrieved from https://webspace.utexas.edu/ cherwitz/www/ie/b_flowers.html Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/no v08-garner.htm http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/no v08-garner.htm Simpson, T. (2009). The toolkit. Retrieved from Simpson, T. (2009). The toolkit. Retrieved from http://www.win-more-cases.com/toolkit/ introduction/artist-inspector-architect-carpenter.html Resources
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Intuition Michelle’s tool Related courses
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