First page: Betty S. Flowers Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: Roles and the Writing Process "What's the hardest part of writing?" I ask on the first day

First page: Betty S. Flowers Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: Roles and the Writing Process "What's the hardest part of writing?" I ask on the first day of class. "Getting started," someone offers, groaning. "No, it's not getting started," a voice in the back corrects. "It's keeping on once you do get started. I can always write a sentence or two - but then I get stuck." "Why?" I ask. "I don't know. I'm writing along, and all of a sudden I realize how awful it is, and I tear it up. Then I start over again, and after two sentences, the same thing happens." "Let me suggest something which might help," I say. Turning to the board, I write four words: "madman," "architect," "carpenter," "judge." Then I explain: "What happens when you get stuck is that two competing energies are locked horn to horn, pushing against each other. One is the energy of what I'll call your 'madman.' He's full of ideas, writes crazily and perhaps rather sloppily, gets carried away by enthusiasm or anger, and if really let loose, could turn out ten pages an hour. "The second is a kind of critical energy - what I'll call the 'judge.' He's been educated and knows a sentence fragment when he sees one. He peers over your shoulder and says 'That's trash!' with such authority that the madman loses his crazy confidence and shrivels up. You know the judge is right - after all, he speaks with the voice of your most imperious English teacher. But for all his sharpness of eye, he can't create anything