Summary and Response of "The Maker's Eye"

In this article Murray makes a point that writing shouldn’t be a one step process. It should be several steps and then some. Murray also talks about how many writers will write their work and then either leave it for a while or immediately read it from either a stranger’s or from a critic’s point of view, or both, and then begin to edit it. Writers will also often become their own critics when re-reading and editing their papers. Murray says that this is a good thing, but that it can also be bad because the writer can often be too harsh on himself or herself and end up with nothing because they don’t like the paper and end up destroying it in some way. Another point Murray makes is that writers tend to look for a lot of different things in their writing and are really never satisfied with it because they think and know deep down that it can be better. Another point made in this article is that many students will only write one draft and then say that they are done with it and that it is a good paper, but in reality it may not be because it probably lacks in a lot of areas because of the lack of editing and re-writing that many papers require.
My first thought when reading the title, “The Maker’s Eye” was that it was going to be an article dealing with God or some other religious affiliation. But to my surprise it was about writing and writers and how they value and edit and re-read and re-write their work multiple times. When Muller says that students often think they’re done after they’ve written their first draft I totally agree. Students think they are done because they often want to believe they are done because they are too lazy and lack the initiative to make the paper better by editing and re-writing. Students simply don’t want to do it because it’s too much work. To me this was one of Muller’s main points that I believe to be true because I know I have tried to get by with writing only one draft on several occasions. I had no idea how many times a professional writer re-reads, edits, and re-writes a paper before becoming satisfied with it, if they ever really become satisfied at all.