Cartoon by Will McPhail |
Of course, we would advise one to complete this (writer's) To Do list in the opposite order.
Cartoon by Will McPhail |
Image Source: Sandy Cangelosi |
One of the best times to write for teachers slash professors is during summer vacation but like Will Self, the English author, I would advise educators to do a substantial brain dump (e.g., ≈ 200 pages) before doing any editing.
Self advised in The Guardian's "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction" (Fri 19 Feb 2010):
“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each [summer] day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit [in the fall]."