Science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth May recently offered a really excellent Twitter thread about “trash drafting.”
As a writer and teacher of writing, I was particularly drawn to the final Tweet in the thread:
This emphasis on the proper place of editing in the writing process (attending to surface features later rather than earlier) reminded me of a dictum from Lou LaBrant (1946) that drives much of how I teach writing: “As a teacher of English, I am not willing to teach the polishing and adornment of irresponsible, unimportant writing [emphasis added]…. I would place as the first aim of teaching students to write the development of full responsibility for what they CONTINUE READING: Adapting Elizabeth May’s “Trash Drafting” for Students-as-Writers – radical eyes for equity