There is a time in the writing process when writers need to take a step back from the words for a moment and focus on telling the story. We call these drafts "discovery drafts".
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| These writers are focused on their stories. They're working on their writing fluency by writing fast and long. |
This is the time when we recreate the experience or memory in our minds and step inside. As we relive this moment, we write all the sounds and words we hear, the small actions of all the characters, the emotions we felt, and the sights, smells, and feel of the setting of our story. We focus on getting the story on the page by writing fast and long. Just as good readers let the story or book carry them away, a good writer can get lost in their own story. The sights and sounds of the real world around you begin to fall away as you capture the images in your mind like insects in a spider web -- trap them on your page for your reader to savor.
Writers, what are some important things you've learned about writing a discovery draft? What are some things that good writers do to help them as they draft? What did you learn about the way a writer actually writes the words on their page? Where are we writing our drafts? Help us talk again here about what good writers do when they draft.
I love to write in our discovery drafts because we can go to end to end and skip a line and do it alover again!!! Love Jordan
ReplyDeleteWhen we did a quick draft I noticed that we just wrote every thing we wanted to get on our draft paper and dont worry to much about punctuation.Quick drafts are the opposite of your FINAL publish.
ReplyDeleteYuri
You just jot the things that you want to include in your discovery draft,but you dont want to focus on punctuation .You focus on your main story.
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When we did our quick draft I noticed that we dont really worry about spelling or puntuation and it is NOTHING like your final publish.Bobbi
ReplyDeletetoday mrs.Koster told us that the discovery DRAFT, that we could just not have to worry about spelling and that it is just like throwing up on it like you don't have to worry if it is absolutally perfect.
ReplyDeletei love doing quick drafs because we get a sertain amount of time to get everything on your paper that comes from your head
ReplyDeleteNevaeh
I am writing about my baby brother!!!
ReplyDeleteAUDREY
i love doing quick drafs!!!
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somtimes I get lost in my story when I write and somtimes I won't want to write but then when I start to write i'll be saying in my head I love writing just like when you said in the blog "some people get lost in there writing.Macy N
ReplyDeleteIt's when you can write anything that you want you can just get all of idea on paper and writing fast.And it's when you don't have to worry about spelling and caplizing Sawyer
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