Flowers’ Model of the Writing Process

1. Flowers’ Modelof the Writing Process

2. Standard model • Get ideas • Draft • Revise • Polish

3. Parts / Whole Original Star Trek McCoyintuition Spockreason Kirkexecutive function

4. Your writing energies Creator Drafter Planner Editor

5. Flowers’ model

6. Flowers Variation Role Architect Lunatic Carpenter Judge orJanitor Architect Artist Carpenter Inspector What if…? Why not…? What’s the plan? Build it! Clean it up! Or if you prefer…

7. Words of wisdom • Each of these four characters needs time alone on the stage. • If you shortchange any of them, your writing will suffer. • Garner (1997)

8. Enemies and allies Natural allies Natural enemies

9. Your writing energies • Which is strongest? • Describe any conflicts you experience between the four energies. • If you wish, share strategies that you find helpful in resolving conflicts. Creator Planner Drafter Editor

10. Cultivating the Creator • Separate drafting and editing. • Focus on capturing ideas. • Promise the Judge a chance to comment later.

11. Focus on potential

12. Trust order will emerge

13. Cultivating the Planner • Follow a model. • Create an outline or other overview. • Use linear logic or web thinking,whichever works for you. random order 1, 2, 3

14. Step- or web-thinker? • Follow a model. • Create an outline or other overview. • Use linear logic or web thinking,whichever works for you. random order 1, 2, 3

15. Cultivating the Carpenter • Create the draft. • Separate writing and editing. • Go with the flow. • Leave gaps for later.

16. Write, then edit

17. It ain’t where you start, it is where you finish. Gen. Colin Powell Tolerate the mess

18. Cultivating the Judge • Judge = “inspector for quality control” (Garner, 1997)

19. Cultivating the Judge • First, deal with global issues. • Have you said what you wanted to say? • Are things in the right order? • Then switch to your readers’ point of view. • Have you anticipated questions? • Will readers understand? • Do they have a reason to care? • Finally, fix errors.

20. Do a “dental draft” A friend of mine says that the first draft is the downdraft—you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft—you fix it up. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it’s loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy. Anne Lamott

21. What have you learned? Creator Planner Drafter Editor

22. Genealogy References Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Madman, architect, carpenter, judge: Roles and the writing process.Retrieved from https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/b_flowers.html Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/nov08-garner.htm (Flowers, n.d.) (Garner, 1997) (Munzenmaier, 2010) You

23. Resources • Flowers, B. S. (n.d.). Madman, architect, carpenter, judge: Roles and the writing process.Retrieved from https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/b_flowers.html • Garner, B. A. (1997). Using the Flowers paradigm to write more efficiently. Retrieved from http://www.wsba.org/media/publications/barnews/nov08-garner.htm • Simpson, T. (2009). The toolkit. Retrieved from http://www.win-more-cases.com/toolkit/introduction/artist-inspector-architect-carpenter.html