1. Does this whole "in the zone" thing with writers actually exist? If Allen was sitting in front of me, writing her shitty draft, I'm just wondering what her expressions would be, especially if she has all of these voices talking to her.
2. When I scanning the table of contents for this article and saw that is contained the word shitty, I smiled to myself a little. Lamott talks about a shitty first draft. In high school teachers always tried to help students to understand that a first draft and brainstorming is almost essential to writing papers because the brain gets stimulated. Even for awhile I opposed the idea of brainstorming because I thought it was pointless. Then I had to write a 15 page research paper and I had no choice but to brain storm because I mean seriously what the hell am I going to put on 15 pages. So, is brainstorm a good idea or a bad idea? Or does it just depend on the person and what they're writing?
3. This is really unrelated to the topic itself but do you think it's okay to cuss or use vulgar language in literature? I know as college readers it usually grabs our attention when an author does use it. But would the article still have gotten the point across and been as interesting or affective without it ?
Once again, very good questions. I like how (in some) you embed your explanations in the questions themselves. Still I'd like to see an explanation for every question. +/+.
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