1. Freewriting Exercises

How freewriting exercises help

Freewriting and garbage

Keep a freewriting diary

Using freewriting exercises for finding subjects to write about

Producing a finished piece of writing

2. The Process of Writing-Growing

Autobiographical digression

It makes a difference in practice

Growing

Start writing and keep writing

Chaos and disorientation

Emerging center of gravity

Editing

Growing as a developmental process

3. The Process of Writing-Cooking

Cooking as interaction between people

Cooking as interaction between ideas

Cooking as interaction between words and ideas, between immersion and perspective

Cooking as interaction between metaphors

Cooking as interaction between genres and modes

Cooking as interaction between you and symbols on paper

Noncooking

Desperation writing

The goal is cooking

Cooking and energy

Goodness and badness

Why the old, wrong model of writing persists

Conclusion

4. The Teacherless Writing Class

Setting up the class

Giving movies of your mind

Further advice to readers

Advice to the writer on listening

The class process

5. Thoughts on the Teacherless Writing Class

How I came to this approach

Huh?

Why the teacherless class helps make writing easier

Why the teacherless class helps make writing better

People learn from the truth, even though the truth is a mess

The process of learning writing

What about grammar?

The yogurt model

Subjective bullshit

Multiple-choice diary

Appendix Essay: The Doubting Game and the Believing Game-An Analysis of the Intellectual Enterprise

The monopoly of the doubting game

The truth about meaning and words

Short digression on the New Critics

Why the doubting game doesn't work with assertions of meaning

The believing muscle

Meaning-making as gestalt-making

The myth of the laboratory rat

Believing and doubting as dialetics

The two dialectics as games

The believing game in action: fighting the itch for closure

The two games as reinforcers of different character traits

Fears of the believing game

Speculations on the history of the believing game

Conclusion: the interdependence of the two games

Appendix: A Couple of Notes to Myself

Works Cited

A Few Books to Help with Correct Usage

Reminders to Keep in View

During a Teacherless Writing Class.