I just
wrote, "Loomis slashes his chest." I didn't say, "Well I know what I'm going to do.
Blues, history and dramaturgy: an interview with August Wilson
I
wrote constantly, beginning the novel Separate and Related, and I also
wrote the first short story I "sold" that year--although I didn't begin trying to sell it until after I'd left grad school.
"My characters are teaching me to be strong": an interview with Tananarive Due
As long as he read his stories to the teacher and she
wrote them down, there was no problem understanding what he had to say.
Learning Disabled Students: Using Process Writing to Build Autonomy and Self Esteem
In a study of writing groups in a college classroom, McAllister (2005) found that students participating in collaborative writing groups were more active in sharing their ideas, attended class more frequently, and showed a higher improvement in their writing than did students who
wrote individually.
Promoting scholarship through writing groups
"The Beckett tension is between the person and the mathematical zero,"
wrote the late literary critic Hugh Kenner in his groundbreaking Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study (1961), "hence his preoccupation with series and permutation, with the unique tenacities of declarative syntax, which so order and encase mute agonies, and with silence.
Language in the vicinity of art: artists' writings, 1960-1975
So he said he was only going to write prose, but by trying to do that he
wrote A Notebook of a Return to My Native Land.
Amiri Baraka analyzes how he writes
Another strategy, one favored by the first woman to be the dean of a medical school, Ann Preston of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the masquerade or "cross-dressing." Preston's rhetorical ploy involved a simple subterfuge: in most of the college addresses and announcements she authored, frequently anonymously, she
wrote as if there was nothing anomalous at all in the existence of a woman's medical college.
Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine. (Reviews)
"The thing was, no one was writing these types of books for the African-American market." Gray returned to his book and
wrote it from a Christian perspective.
Boom in Christian fiction. (self publishing)
The Ghosts of Versailles, the opera that I
wrote with musician John Corigliano, took me about 12 years to complete.
Tales of Hoffman
For example, "The manager
wrote the report" is active, and "The report was written by the manager" is passive.
Writing in plain English
Below are the words of a journal entry that I
wrote just before I stumbled into writing a major portion of this article.
Writing for management journals
And often, we think that if you don't like the way we
wrote something, you don't like us.
Write to the bottom line: how to make your company's communication more powerful
For instance, instead of "Bologna," he
wrote "B I gn." Although aware of his spelling errors, the man still could not come up with any vowels.
Clues emerge from vowels of the brain
In his final reflective letter, however, he
wrote "even in class settings, my writing [style] can be acceptable.
Building connections through reflective writing
Similarly, in "Gentle Companions: Single Women and their Letters in Late Stuart England," Susan Whyman provides notable profiles of women like Peg Adams who
wrote to her Verney kin, "...
Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714 & Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 & Women Writing 1550-1750