My Writing Process

Before I write, I try to set straight what exactly it is that I'm going to say. What's going to be the point of this piece? I try to gather up reasons, evidence and examples to back up the piece. The first half of the process is usually in my head. I make little groups of information. Once I have most of the information, I just begin to write. I set up the intro with little tid bits of what I'm about to write.

After I've written the piece, I check for mistakes or anything that could be made better. I usually end up switching paragraphs around and doing a lot of rewriting and re-organizing. From there I do a lot of re-reading and editing.

If the piece is going to be really long, I’ll do more concrete pre-writing, an outline for example. Or I’ll even start hashing out certain paragraph that I know will be incorporated.