The Nature of Writing Process

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Preliminary Questions: Which is which? Creative Writing (CW) or Technical Writing (TW)

_____TW_____ 1. Teaches us to use the library.

_____CW____ 2. Integrates the important element which is the written language and the writer’s

material like any experience which may be real.

_____TW_____ 3. Deals with how to manage substantially long process of writing with particular steps

to follow.

_____CW_____ 4. Form of exposition that deals with different literary style of writing.

______CW___ 5. The process is no exactly a method or a continuing development, but rather a

happenstance or an outbreak.

_____TW_____ 6. Deals with utilizing both the interviews and the survey as tools for the paper study.

_____CW_____ 7. Deals with the level of telling what you write, the level of showing what you write,

and the level of creating instantly what you write.

_____TW_____ 8. Deals with proper documentation of sources or references.

______CW____ 9. Cultivate imagination and creativity where the writer may be open to reality.

_____CW_____ 10. May deal with the personal and the sentimental as the core of writing.

_____CW_____ 11. May deal with writing either prose or poetry.

_____TW_____ 12. Substantiates writing or recognize topics that are worthy of scholarly study.

_____TW_____ 13. Puts together data gathered to come up with an integral piece of writing.

______CW____ 14. The writer has a point of view or his/her conviction or perspective such as

emotional, sociological, psychological, historical and so forth.

_____TW_____ 15. Applying scientific studies which provide skills for the hand rather than skills for

the mind.

_____CW_____ 16. Deals with the aim of entertaining the reader.

Question/Answer or Open-ended Sentences about Writing:

(Please support your answer and explicate.)

- What is it that you would usually like to write about and why?

I would prefer to write a fictional romance stories or novel just like what Nicholas Sparks has done. For his works and ideas has an impeccable impact to his readers. Every characters, plots, settings, inciting incident or motivating force, complications, climax, anticlimax and the conclusions are all connected or intertwined with each other that the readers can relate and understand very well the feelings and emotions that there is, in such stories or novels that they are reading.

2. Would you feel more convenient being a story-teller or an essayist, a novelist or a poet?

Why?

It would be more convenient for me if I choose to be a novelist. For being a novelist a person can surely relate his/her feelings and emotions to the characters that he/she would create and build. The plots, themes, and settings that is imaginable in real life would be believable and possible in writing a novel. And that a novelist has the power to end his novel in a very remarkable and extraordinary way even if it is a tragic ending or a happy ending.

- Many say that writing is an integral part of daily human communication. Why is beginning to write a mystery?

Beginning to write is a mystery because of its abbreviated length, a short story or novel must be focused and compact. It should contain no more information than absolutely necessary. Every paragraph, every sentence, every word, must be meaningful and connected to the story, that may entice the reader to read it fully and understand what message or lessons the writer is implying.

- Can experiences of anguish, disappointments and failures serve as one’s inspiration to write? Why?

Yes, experiences of anguish, disappointments and failures can serves as an inspiration in writing a novel or a short stories. For one thing, they can express in words, what you feel in your heart. Such experiences of anguish, disappointments and failures will remind the writer to stand strong when tested, and that every bad situation, is an opportunity for growth. And that the writer will learn to expand himself and deal with the bigger challenges, and respond more effectively for his works will be his way of releasing his anguish, disappointments and failures.