Post 2: Writing Myths

I used to think that you had to have a complete paper rough draft that was absolutely perfect. I thought I was supposed to have it all figured out before I write on the paper but, little did I know that "writers figure out what they want to write as they write it," stated by Lennie Irvin. In school they always taught us to to have everything prepared either in our head or on a separate sheet of paper before we started our rough draft. It was difficult to write like this since the older I got the teachers and professors started wanting more from me with less time to prep. The outcome of the paper would be jumbled up and hard to read. I notice I would change my writing many times but after reading Irvin's myths it makes sense why we shouldn't have everything planned out as it just naturally comes to us instead. Now I no longer believe in this myth of starting my writing once everything is figured out.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 20, 2018 at 7:27 AM

    excellent post, very intelligent and well thought out. I wonder if you wrote this without pre writing in any way?

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    1. keith.hamonJanuary 21, 2018 at 11:49 AM

      He probably did, which proves his point, don't you think?

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  2. UnknownJanuary 21, 2018 at 8:10 AM

    I also thought that I had to have a complete rough draft that was perfect. I would always worry if my rough draft was a good one because teachers never taught us anything better than to write your rough draft and then just rewrite it in pin to become your final draft.

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