During the last two decades innovative approaches affecting writing production have been introduced in the areas like linguistics (enunciative grounds, genetic criticism) and technologies. Contributions made by these approaches are major and they keep continuing to offer a possibility for teachers to modify their teaching practices. In this article, it is a question of observing a real-time film of writing to glide in front of our eyes. The written productions are made by a restricted target group of Finnish students of French as a foreign language. The aim of this research is to demonstrate what really is happening during the writing process. The research aims at applying these theoretical approaches in order to find out to what extent it is possible to generalize the operations of writing: in this way reoriented activity of writing does not be satisfied with the final text but with its foretext.