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 Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:48 pm
Do you do it?
For anything, school work included?
I for one despised middle school because all they seemed to focus on in lit class was prewriting. My "prewriting" consists of writing the story/essay/whatever however it comes to me. Then I go back and add/delete/change/edit. This is why computers are my best friend. Copy-paste and I are lovers. XD
In middle school, we had to turn in outlines and webs and blah blah blah. I'd write first and then make the outline out of whatever I had written.
So what about you? Do you prewrite?
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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:28 pm
Not at all.
Prewriting messes up the flow of my writing.
Sure, I may get scolded at school for it, but it's my work enviroment.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:12 am
Whenever I turn in outline stuff it usually consists of a drawing of a clown wearing a cape riding an airplane.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:32 pm
Teachers always yell at me for never outlining
then they praise me for a magnificant piece of writing.
I dont get it.
whee
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:52 pm
Tak-Jak Teachers always yell at me for never outlining
then they praise me for a magnificant piece of writing.
I dont get it.
whee They just yell at me for not trying on my writing... hence, my 21/30 on my essay for the book we read over the summer. I suppose it's a bad thing when you write a persuasive essay and accidently contradict yourself twice... (they were actually parts I had intended to take out. I just, eh, forgot. sweatdrop )
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:34 pm
I kinda prewrite. I mean, I jot down something when inspiration strikes and then mull over it before actually putting anything of signifigance down. I tend to write better after I've had a chance to think about what inspired me, instead of right off the bat.
But usually, my 'prewriting' consists of stuff like:
"NOTE TO SELF:
WRITE KICKASS NOVEL ABOUT TRAIN WRECK BEFORE TUES.
FIRST PERSON LTD
PROTAGONIST DIES AT THE END
FAIRYTALE PARALLEL"
(Which, by the way, is actually written sloppily on a green post-it note stuck to my monitor.)
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:17 am
I have something that I do
Called a Post-It Note Project.
I carry around a pack of them
and if I have inspiration
I write something down
leave it attached in its rightful place
and leave it there.
For it is after all..
Its home.
xd
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:47 pm
It all depends on where I'm at really, if it's school, then yeah, I do a web and once I start writing I forget what I was going to write about gonk
But if it's at home, no I don't, I hate doing webs and outlines, I sometimes am okay with drafts but usauly I just think about it and then start once I know what it is I'm going to write about.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:40 am
NO WAY. I just write whatever I feel like, which is usually part of my novel...I have so many fragments XD, and hardly any are even in the book...editing. wink
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:24 pm
Erhem. I actually don't mind outlining, but this year in school we don't have to turn in anything besides our final paper.. and I've found that the jotted notes style helps as well as random brainstorms in my notebook. I like to look back and try to follow my old thoughts.. as disjointed and whacked as they may or may not be.
Iunno. I can't just sit down and write a paper.
The stuff in my "Scribbles" Folder.. the word outline comes NO WHERE NEAR IT. Yesh..
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:09 pm
it's odd. Stuff that doesn't belong there sticks in my head, and the useful stuff cant stay...I can sit and think for hours about my book, and I'll remember a lot of it, but I can sit and listen to a teacher for two hours and not take in a word. That's probably why I'm failing math and science sweatdrop It's a lecture class, you know.
Prewriting...doesn't seem to have a point. I mean, the story is never just outlined for everyone to see. You have to follow it word by word, not event by event or chapter by chapter. We read word to word to word, so why wouldn't we write like that? I don't get it :/
Of course, this is me talking. Kirby, who has over 400 pages of writing and only 30 are actually useful.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:55 am
I usually only write short-stories, so like other people said... prewriting messes up the flow. Whenever I do long stuff, though, like the novel I started to write, I prewrote a little bit... just so I can remember how I want things to play out. Too short of an attention span to do otherwise. xp
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:55 pm
I sort of outline for essays; it's more just a brainstorm on what my points for an essay are going to be, to see if they work, and if they don't, I change my mind. It's kind of extremely necessary when you only have thirty minutes to write, like I do in AP Gov and AP English.
As for my stories, I have outlined in great detail, although I usually write first, and figure it out later. It is just a way for me to formulate ideas, and get them down before I forget them. I can then alter them in whatever way suits my, because as far as I'm concerned, the plot should evolve however you want, and not based on what the outline says. However, I do have to be careful, because when I overplan, I loose interest.
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:53 pm
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