Quotes About Prewriting

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

But binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians. The bad habits that keep them from getting down to writing also keep them from doing the prewriting (Kellogg, 1994)—the reading, outlining, organizing, brainstorming, planning, and number-crunching necessary for typing words.