Writing consultant shadow - session 2.

For this session, I remained quiet the whole time and simply observed the consultant  at work. Much like last week, a girl without a paper (but with plenty of ideas) came in to talk about her ideas for a paper. She went into a very long summary of the book she was writing about and also trying to get some feedback from the consultant regarding her ideas. This was very much a brainstorming session, and I noticed that through the whole process, the consultant and the writer were sharing and developing ideas that I think will really help the writer write a good paper. Also, she had a long list of quotes that she wanted to relate to her ideas. Obviously, a session like this is a little harder than having a physical paper to go through because it requires a lot of thought and idea-sharing between the consultant and writer, but I think it was a good exercise that will help any writer. It seems the writing consultant really does need to be very flexible and dynamic in terms of how he/she performs her job...