In your blog post, please write a paragraph that sets the scene for a round-table conversation, including each writer's name and a linked title to each text you are using for your blog post (as shown above). You can also describe the setting: a cafe, an office, a forest. Then, use 12 quotes (three from each reading and three from you) to create a round-table discussion about writing processes.
On this nice sunny morning, there were three students name Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life , Carolyn Chute (How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call), Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing They were at IHop for breakfast. They all decided to have a conversation on creating nonfiction essays. As they are waiting for their waitress. They all took out a notebook along with a pen and a pencil, so they can take notes. Anne decided that she would start the conversation off :
Anne: Often when you sit down to write , what you have in mind is an autobiographical novel about your childhood ?
Carolyn: Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer like dreaming.
Ray: I began' to run through those lists, pick a' noun, and then sit down to write a long prose-poem-essay on it.
Anne: It reminds me that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one-inch picture frame.
Carolyn: I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out.
Ray: Somewhere along about the middle of the page, or perhaps on the second page, the prose poem would turn into a story.
Anne: Beginners always try to fit their whole lives into ten pages , and they always write blatantly about themselves.
Carolyn: "Have a seat," I tell the new guests, and I set a match under the tea kettle.
Ray: I finally found it one afternoon when I was twenty two years old. I wrote the title "The Lake" on the first page of a story that finished' itself two hours later.