Writing Without Teachers Chapters 1 and 2

Writing is a process of discovery where students sort out, organize, analyze, and synthesize. Writing anxiety often comes from the misconception that the ideas and organization have to be in place in the student's mind before the student starts writing, when actually writing is the process where this takes place. Freewriting gets students' thoughts flowing, and should be done regularly in a writing class.
Writing is referred to as cooking a message instead of transmitting a message.
Anxiety about what you are going to write keeps you from writing. The process should
involve change and a focus and theme should emerge.