Friday, September 16, 2011

My writing process- Freewrite

My writing process consists of me sitting at my computer staring blankly at the empty page in Microsoft Word. Realizing it has been a good ten or fifteen minutes without having written a thing, I will usually then put a header at the top of the page, just to make it look like i've made or am in the process of making progress. I'll sway away from the subject at hand and visit other sites, perhaps to gain some influence, but not really at all. It is otherwise known as procrastination. I'll click back to my word document repeatedly as if to see if some magical paper fairy has started off my paper with thejust  hook in the introductory sentence that I have been attempting to write myself. Of course, much to my dismay, there is still nothing written. I will usually then look at my clock, which is when I realize I have wasted a large majority of my time. Then I begin to type something. Probably the worst sentence anyone will probably ever read in his or her life, but it's something. Typically, if i'm lucky, I will continue to write based off of that first ridiculous sentence. I will read it over again, delete the first sentence, alter the second sentence to become more "first sentence" material, then finally, feeling somewhat content with what i've accomplished, I will finish my first draft, otherwise known as my sloppy copy.

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