I really liked Boice's rule number six, "The most fluent, efficient, comfortable, and imaginative writers spend as much time at prewriting as at prose writing" (53).
I spent a fair amount of time thinking about what I wanted to write, brainstorming ideas, trying out narrative styles, and outlining. But even with that, I will still probably conduct more prose writing than prewriting for this project. This rule makes me realize that prewriting is an ongoing process throughout the writing process. So maybe I should stop and do some more prewriting exercises for this project.
The other concept in this section that peeked my interest was the idea for completely immersing yourself in a subject. Since my project is a nonfiction story from my life, I'm not sure how this would work, but for other projects, I think this would be a great step for facilitating imagination! I could easily use this for writing fiction on a topic or nonfiction on a topic that I know little about. I know when I read history, I start to get immersed in the subject and start imagining story lines and characters. I think this is kind of what Boice is talking about.
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