For blog post two we have to come up with a story that we run into Don Murray, Mary Karr, and Anne Lemont. I have hyperlinked their names to their writings. The story has to be about how I go up to them and ask about the writing process. I decide to run into them at Chickies and Pete's.
September 8, 2019. It’s the Philadelphia Eagles season opener. They are playing the Washington Redskins. Me and a couple of my friends decide to go to Chickies and Pete’s to watch the game. We get a table and start watching the game. We’re ordering food and having a good time. Then I look over and see Ann Lemont, Don Murray, and Mary Karr sitting at the table across the room. So once it was halftime I went over and talked to them. I introduced myself and asked them what they were talking about. Don Murray said “We are talking about our next works”. So I asked them “What do you guys do when you have writers block”. Don Murray said “I start with prewriting” So I asked him “What’s prewriting” He said “Prewriting is everything that takes place before the first draft. Prewriting usually takes about 85 percent of the writer’s time.”(pg. 2). Mary Karr gives her insight and says “In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot.” (Pg 3). Anne Lemont said “First I try to breathe, because I’m either sitting there panting like a lap dog or I’m unintentionally making slow asthmatic death rattles.” (Pg. 28). I said “normally I just put my headphones in and start writing until I get some traction.“ They all said that it’s a good place to start. So I went on to ask them “What comes after prewriting?” Don said writing your first draft is the next step. “It’s the fastest part of the process, and the most frightening.” (Pg. 3) Anne Lemont chimes in and says the next thing she does is “I notices the one-inch picture frame that I put on my desk to remind me of short assignments." (pg. 28) Mary Karr says the next step she does is “Editor me comes back to comb over— and over— and over the pages, unpacking each moment.” (Pg. 3) I added “I’m my worst critic, I always over analyze and think too much.” “How do you guys prevent yourselves from overthinking?” Marry Karr says “For me, the last 20 percent of a books improvement takes 95 percent of the effort— all in the editing. I can honestly say not one page I’ve ever published appears anywhere close to how it came out in the final draft.” (Pg. 3) Don Murray says “It may take many times the hours required for a first draft, perhaps the remaining 14 percent of the time the writer spends on the project.” (Pg. 3) Anne Lemont says “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.” (Pg. 35) After hearing everything they had to say I thanked them for their help and time. Then I got up and went back to where my friends were sitting and we watched the Eagles beat the Redskins 32-27.
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