A topic within Writing Craft, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Anthony Trollope
Treats novel-writing as a trade rather than a visitation — so many words before breakfast, every morning, earnings disclosed to the pound — and argues that waiting for inspiration is what stops most books being written.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Linda Flower & John R. Hayes
Built from think-aloud protocols of writers at work, argues that composing is not a linear sequence of prewriting, writing and rewriting but a set of recursive, goal-directed processes — planning, translating and reviewing — under the control of an active monitor that can interrupt any of them at any moment.
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