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I'm usually one of those kind of people who struggles to do any pre-writing because I tend to want to go back and correct my writing, and I also want to go back and reread what I just wrote and see if it makes sense. Even as I attempt to do a free free write for this assignment, I find myself going back and seconds after typing a word or sentence and correcting it. Even though I am consciously trying to avoid going back and changing my work, if I stop my fingers from moving for a second, I slip into old habits. I think I may be one of those who may benefit from the suggestions Dr. Cauthen mentioned, that when writing on a computer, cover the screen, so as to avoid interrupting your writing process and to keep thoughts fluid. I remember once, in my early years of school, I had a teacher that said that one of the essential aspects of classic Greek rhetoric was the  style of a speech. Because of this, rhetoricians would create their speech as they go, see how it sounds, and if it sounds right (i.e. the right style), they say it from the beginning again, and commit it to memory... if its bad, they start over until they hear the right voice in their head, and they have the rigtht style.  I think that's the way I write, and I recognize that it is very unsophisticated... but I've been doing it for years. I wish I could preplan, prewrite, and make take advantage of those tools, but every time I try to do any of those, I find much of it useless because its usually inconsistant with my voice at the time.....Some exercises we read about it tonight reading seemed like that had potential. I'll try a few of them for my next writing assignment.