engage your inner writer(s) cecelia munzenmaier school of life
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Engage Your Inner Writer(s)
Cecelia MunzenmaierSchool 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)?Writer(s)?
Original Original Star TrekStar Trek
SpockSpockreasonreason
McCoyMcCoyintuitionintuition
KirkKirkexecutive functionexecutive function
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Your writing energiesYour writing energies
CreatorCreator
PlannerPlanner DrafterDrafter
EditorEditor
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Flowers’ modelFlowers’ model
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Or if you prefer…
FlowersFlowers VariationVariation
ArchitectArchitect
LunaticLunatic What if…What if…??Why not…?Why not…?
What’s the plan?What’s the plan?
Build it!Build it!
Clean it up!Clean it up!
CarpenterCarpenter
Judge Judge ororJanitorJanitor
ArchitectArchitect
ArtistArtist
CarpenterCarpenter
InspectorInspector
RoleRole
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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 enemiesNatural enemies Natural alliesNatural allies
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Which is strongest?Which is strongest?
Describe any conflicts Describe any conflicts
you experienceyou experience
between the between the
four energies.four energies.
If you wish, If you wish,
share strategies share strategies
that you find helpful that you find helpful
in resolving conflicts.in resolving conflicts.
Your writing energiesYour writing energies
CreatorCreator
DrafterDrafter
PlannerPlanner
EditorEditor
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Cultivating the CreatorCultivating the Creator
Separate drafting and editing.Separate drafting and editing.
Focus on capturing ideas.Focus on capturing ideas.
Promise the Judge a chance to comment later.Promise the Judge a chance to comment later.
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Focus on potentialFocus on potential
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Trust order will emergeTrust order will emerge
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Cultivating the PlannerCultivating the Planner
Follow a model.Follow a model.
Create an outline or other overview.Create an outline or other overview.
Use linear logic or web thinking,Use linear logic or web thinking,whichever works for you.whichever works for you.
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Step- or web-thinker?Step- or web-thinker?
Follow a model.Follow a model.
Create an outline or other overview.Create an outline or other overview.
Use linear logic or web thinking,Use linear logic or web thinking,whichever works for you.whichever works for you.
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Cultivating Cultivating the the CarpenterCarpenter
Separate writing and editing.Separate writing and editing.
Create the draft.Create the draft.
Go with the flow.Go with the flow.
Leave gaps for later.Leave gaps for later.
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Write, then editWrite, then edit
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Tolerate the mess
It ain’t where you start, It ain’t where you start, it is where you finish.it is where you finish.
Gen. Colin PowellGen. Colin Powell
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Cultivating Cultivating the the JudgeJudge
Judge = “inspector for quality control”Judge = “inspector for quality control”GarnerGarner
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Cultivating Cultivating the the JudgeJudge
First, deal with global issues.First, deal with global issues.Have you said what you wanted to say?Have you said what you wanted to say?Are things in the right order?Are things in the right order?
Then switch to your readers’ point of view.Then switch to your readers’ point of view.Have you anticipated questions?Have you anticipated questions?Will readers understand?Will readers understand?Do they have a reason to care?Do they have a reason to care?
Finally, fix errors.Finally, fix errors.
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Do a “dental draft”
A friend of mine says that the first A friend of mine says that the first draft is the draft is the downdown draftdraft—you just —you just get it down. The second draft is get it down. The second draft is the the up draftup draft—you fix it up. And —you fix it up. And the third draft is the the third draft is the dental draftdental draft, , where you check every tooth, where you check every tooth, to see if it’s loose or cramped to see if it’s loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy.us, healthy.
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Anne LamottAnne Lamott
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Do you plan to try any Do you plan to try any of these strategies?of these strategies?
Do you have Do you have others toothers torecommend?recommend?
What advice doWhat advice doyou have aboutyou have aboutcultivating thecultivating theDrafter? theDrafter? theEditor?Editor?
Your writing energiesYour writing energies
DrafterDrafter
EditorEditor
CreatorCreator
PlannerPlanner
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(Flowers, n.d.)(Flowers, n.d.)
(Garner, 1997)(Garner, 1997)
(Munzenmaier, (Munzenmaier, 2010)2010)
YouYou
GenealogyGenealogy
ReferencesReferences
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 Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/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 Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from write more efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/novhttp://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/nov08-garner.htm08-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
ResourcesResources
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IntuitionIntuition
Michelle’s tool
Related coursesRelated courses
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