In this stage, you write your ideas in sentences and paragraphs.
What is Drafting?
100
The three main types of audiences.
What is you, friends/teachers, and the faceless, ultimate audience?
100
This can either focused with prompts or unfocused.
What is free-writing?
100
The advice from Wallace Armstrong's father?
What is “Son, you have a special talent. Be smart. Use it to make money.”?
100
Write as much and as often as you can without editing yourself in it.
What is a journal?
200
In this stage, you plan what you are going to write. You choose a topic, identify your audience and purpose, brainstorm ideas, and organize information.
What is Planning?
200
This directs and controls all the decisions writers make. It is both the what and the how of that process.
What is purpose?
200
This involves a subject and writing down words as fast as possible without editing.
What is listing?
200
Wallace Armstrong's first commission.
What is clown painting for nursery?
200
These are writing tools you are not comfortable writing with like crayons or chalk pencils.
What is alien tools?
300
This stage is the first part of editing your writing. You may work by yourself or with a partner or a group.
What is Revising?
300
An interesting angle from which to investigate your subject.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This wants you to look at your subject in three ways: an object, an action, and a network.
What is speculating?
300
The clown holding two balloons on strings represented this.
What is a man standing behind bars?
300
The monk set himself on fire with rage against this machine.
What is the government?
400
Television, ipod, lawn mower, phone ringing, even chirping birds are examples of this type of distraction.
What is external distraction?
400
A sentence that usually appears in the first paragraph of your essay and states the main idea you are going to develop.
What is thesis?
400
It is best to use a recorder for this planning strategy.
What is interviewing?
400
The way Wallace's mother described the clown.
What is dark?
400
Coming up with 30 ways a bar of soap should never be used is an example of this planning strategy.
What is listing?
500
Although many writing habits are formed by chance and take on the nature of ritual, most come about almost unconsciously and conform to a writer's other type of habits.
What is the way they live or personal habits?
500
These can take a 1,000 words to explain.
What are pictures?
500
Most direct way to investigate a subject.
What is interviewing?
500
The hypothesis of Wallace Armstrong's essay.
What is how would he satisfy his cheerful client and remain true to his creative vision?
500
Wallace Armstrong's friend was told to paint "something rural looking" for this type of establishment.