I don't know about the rest of you, but I am still finding in difficult to stop myself from editing as I am writing. This seems to be something that develops over time, but I wish I could get it the process done a little faster. I am guess the important thing to note is that I haven't stopped trying -- at least not yet. But, of course, I wont.

As for Elbow, sometimes his teaching principles can get a little confusing -- I mean all the talk that he does about internal and external cooking or whatever. What in the heck does that mean? I really have no idea. Maybe some of this stuff is working for me, though. I have noticed that I can do the freewrites with relative ease, but that's probably because I always have too much to say. Or I can never shut up or whatever. But, I don't get the same results when I try to cross things over into academic writing. Its laborious and painful, and, honestly, no fun at all. But I guess the question to ask myself is, how do I learn to take that editorial governor (is this how its spelled? Not sure but this is freewriting so who cares) off when I write? That's the big question that I will have to answer before I can find any sort of writing breakthrough.

I still haven't started the writing narrative yet, but I plan to use the freewriting tactics that we've discussed to do it. I guess that should keep quite a bit, but then again I never seem to know how those things will work out at this point.

I really haven't given the project much thought because I hoped that ideas will just short of spring out of me whenever I do begin to write. That's the stuff that Elbow is always talking about -- to just keep writing for 10 minutes with no interruptions and then go back and try to rework the stuff later. I imagine that is what he might refer to as cooking -- but then again, I am not much of a cook either. Unless you like to eat pasta, burgers, or something else that's really simple to make.