The Flowers Paradigm The Writing Process. A Splendid Suggestion... Betty S. Flowers Director, Lyndon...

The Flowers Paradigm

The Writing Process

A Splendid Suggestion ... Betty S. Flowers

Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Library Former Director of creative writing

for the English Department at University of Texas, Austin

Bryan A. Garner A Dictionary of Modern American

Usage A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

Writing has 4 primary components ...

1. Idea2. Structure3. Craft4. Edit

The Starting Point Topic Format Purpose Audience

The Process

The Flowers Paradigm Madman Architect Carpenter Judge

The Madman generates ideas works without

inhibition maintains

spontaneity believes all

things are possible

Doing the Madman Thing Capture the ideas when they

The Madman spouts

spontaneously usually when

you least expect it

The Madman spouts

you least expect it

The Madman spouts

you least expect it

Truth through freewriting? “If you write to discover

just what the essence of the problem is …

be willing to discardeverything you’ve written

up to the threshold of discovery.”

Bryan A. Garner

The Architect creates order

from the madman’s chaos

structures envisions the

The Architect Your reader

should never wonder where you’re going – or worse, make assumptions about where you’re going.

Your direction must be clear.

The Madman invariably

interrupts

let him run

The Carpenter

crafts sentences and paragraphs

considers tone and audience

makes the logic explicit

The Madman has one more

idea ...

let him run

The Judge nitpicks considers every

detail applies rules

and signposts

The Madman just thought of

something else ...

stop him cold

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