John Baker’s Blog

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?

I came back from vacation earlier this month, and the forest across the street from my grocery store had been chopped down to make way for a shopping center. It fascinated me, how completely that changed the look and feel of a street that I use [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Before the creation of a text can begin I have to do a fair amount of work on research. This may involve visiting places to see what they look like, get a feeling for atmosphere, to see how people use their streets and squares, to see [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
I’ve tried many different ways of writing:
Jumping in without having planned anything.
Writing an outline from the beginning to the end before starting the actual text.
Writing an outline from the initial idea/premise and expanding it outwards (I think it’s called the snowflake technique) before starting the actual [...]

The opening is astounding. Some three to four pages of small print in which Camus attempts to describe his Oran, the setting of the novel. The following is an extract:
Certainly nothing is commoner nowadays than to see people working from morn till night and then proceeding to fritter away at card tables, in cafes, [...]