The Beginning of My Writing Philosophy

Put very simply, I myself am a writer. And as a writer, I find myself buried beneath ideas and papers filled with little notes and other such magical tidbits of information. Herein, I write as thusly: novels, short stories, poems, essays, and whatever else someone asks me to reform in written word. My personal works themselves are of the purely fantasy type, since realism and science fiction seem to be challenging to me, but I can write angry letters rather well. Going about these I generally do them in the same fashion (essays excluded). I begin them so that, like the reader, I can live the words and find the plot as I go on when the text plays about before me. Only I do this because I know I would lose interest if I were to plot out these works and I would leave them lying dead and alone on my stack of ideas. These are purely for my fantasy stories, and poems, seeing as they usually take more than a week for me to write (with exceptions). And as the works go on into long, elongated chapters, I return to the beginning and start tweaking minor details that helped me in the beginning but eventually were spurned with a plot twists. In essense, it takes many drafts, a large stack of white paper, and enough money to buy more ink. For essays and letters, although, I go about it in a completely different fashion. These texts need to be plotted beforehand, in the normal droll essay-text that will forever be either persuasive or arguementive tone (as with my letters). In this manner, I do the standardized plotting of ideas, rough drafts of which are thoroughly edited in hard copies. Usually, I only spend a week on essays (starting with the rough draft on Monday and the final by Friday). But, as with all my writing, I'm never satisfied.

Now, templates are another subject matter entirely. In my purely academic writing, I suppose I should begin the usage of those from the "They say/I say" text I have attained. But, aside from that simple matter, I almost fail to see how it will affect me. Perhaps, if maybe writing a conversation of people debating, clashing viewpoints, or diverse characters such templates will come into play in my writing. But, aside from essays and formal submissions into my classrooms, it might not carry long into my life. Perchance, though, I really do use these templates. And, as the authors of the text said, I quote, "... you'll realize that once you've mastered [an activity] you no longer need to give much consciuos thought to the various moves that go into doing it." So, given how I normally just sit and let the words fall out, not giving much care to formality or grammatical correctness, I might be one of these people. In the styles portrayed, templates are just a pattern to become accomstumed to - something which the human brain can easily recognize and accomplish. And, because I have no true pattern to go by (unless random words can be patterned in some way) I suppose if I began using this format in my original works, then it would become bland, tasteless, and otherwise deprive the text of my style (which as my teacher once told me was a way of crafting long, round-about sentences that flow seemlessly together). So, I suppose, I'd prefer my rather lax showmanship to that of the templates. They are, probably, something I fall back on about sixty percent of the time, but in a different form of template. Either way, though, templates would only lead to a rather unwanted and uncharactaristic meshing of my work. Thus, I do not believe, except for academic uses, I will be using said templates.