Listening Journal: August 22, 2011

Wilco's approach to writing a song is to go directly for what he and the band think the song should sound like, and then take it apart. They deconstruct the song to see if there is a more exciting way to go about the song. They have the philosophy of, we can destroy the song since it is ours. My creative writing process generally is not much of a process. I mentally think about what I want to write about and what direction/ side I am going to take on a subject. I do not sit down and write down all my ideas and how they should all flow together. When I first start writing I focus all my attention to my thesis because I want it to be perfect and then I write my into around my thesis. I write/type my topic sentence for my body paragraphs and go from there. As ideas come to me I add, delete, and re-arrange things in my paper.