A Recipe for a Writer
I never find myself writing in some special place like Stephen King has made for himself when he was transcribing his thoughts and assembling “What Writing Is.” (305-7) It’s actually comforting to know that “John Cheever wrote some of his earlier stories in his underwear,” that “Hemingway [was] said to have written some of his fiction while standing up,” and that Thomas Wolfe reportedly wrote parts of his voluminous novels while leaning over the top of the refrigerator.”
My thoughts, on the other hand, are usually scribbled on top of crinkled napkins while riding the bus to get to class. I mirror the data found in Sandra Perl’s article, “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers,” completely skipping the prewriting process when not given specific instructions to do so. (more…)
