"No, you can't mix up prewriting and drafting. You have to be doing one or the other. Get with the process." "But as you can see-I'm both planning and drafting, prewriting and writing." "Don't be absurd! I suppose next you're going to tell me you can do prewriting after you've started writing." "Yes, I do some of my best planning then." "Then why call it prewriting?" "I don't call it prewriting. I call it percolating.*" "Percolating?" "You know, ideas, images, thoughts, insights, connections, impressions-all bubbling through my consciousness and some of it fermenting in my unconsciousness."