Process

During my meeting with Professor Zoller, I asked him about process. He told me how his was of writing has changed through the years and he also printed out an essay by William Stafford entitled A Way of Writing. 

Our next assignment was to describe what we tried to do with the previous task poems.

It took me a while to actually figure out what we were supposed to do. Once I reread the instructions and understood that, I started to read the prose and mark where I thought the lines should break. We were to focus more on sound at this point. I generally divided the paragraph into thoughts or sentences. Once I did that I wrote it out and revised the new poems further as I typed them in. The second half of the assignment was to make sense of the poems. I crossed out words or complete lines I thought were not necessary, did not fit into what I wanted the poem to mean, or simply did not work. Then I took the lines and rearranged them to recompose their meaning.