Now I just want to play with Legos

The first time I read the quote we talked about today in class, I compared it to my own writing process, and it was pretty much right on. When I sit down to write a paper, I try to compose a sentence or part of a sentence in my head before I type it. After I read it, I often make changes based on my audience and purpose. Well, often is actually an understatement. Constantly would be more accurate. I am definitely a revise-as-I-go kind of writer, so I have a hard time moving on from a sentence or paragraph until I'm happy with it. I'm sure working in journalism and having little or no time for revision probably reinforced this approach, but I've always written that way. One group today made a comparison to the difference between the kids who dump all of their Legos out on the floor and then sift through to find the pieces they want to use and the kids who pick out all the pieces they want to use first. I was definitely a piece-picker-outer. As a kid, I couldn't bring myself to dump Legos onto the floor, and as a writer, I can't bring myself to dump words onto a page.