After years of writing, teaching, and overseeing a writing center, I have become more and more convinced of the importance of paying attention to how writers feel about their writing -the affective dimension -as well as what they think about it. Textbooks deal with writers' feelings pretty incidentally, if at all. The call to study the affective dimension has been made before (McLeod), and it has been studied (see, for instance, Brand), but nearly all the attention has gone to negative feelings. Not much has been written about positive feelings, about times when writers feel good about their writing -and what that has to do with the final product. In this essay I will consider what possibilities there might be for identifying and making use of positive feelings, especially in the writing center.

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