My Writing Process

We’ve all written them and we all groan at being assigned them. An essay can be written through various processes: brainstorming, outlining, and simply winging it. Essays not only include the writing process, but the mind set it takes to write them. When I am writing an essay, I need complete silence; shuffling papers and sounds of life disrupt my thought process. When I am forced to write an essay during class, it pales in comparison to my best work. Essays, for me as a writer, must begin with a trap sentence to ensnare the reader and grab their attention. Without a grand opening, there can be no grand finale; and for me I like my essays to be full of grandeur. I usually write and edit my opening sentence throughout the writing process until
I look at writing like an ongoing conversation; when someone initiates a conversation with me and they don’t have such a great introduction, I’m no longer as interested in the conversation as I would have been if the introduction grabbed my attention. I look at my intro as if I am writing an overview; I start with my one liner, move into my thesis, and slowly ease my way into introducing the critical information. It takes me about an hour alone to craft my introduction, and I am constantly editing it.
I brainstorm and methodically outline my body paragraphs: bulleting, ordering the information chronologically, and citing. I make brain maps sometimes with color coded information so I can organize my information to make it smooth as possible. My greatest challenge is elaboration: never elaborating enough, not making the information clear as possible, and forgetting key details that would make my essay flow easier. I’m trying to get better at showing my rambling thoughts in a way someone else can understand them. This mind isn’t easy to
If I haven’t included enough information or my essay doesn’t make sense, how dare I end it. My conclusion would be fifty shades of messed up and I would have to delete and rewrite a thousand times and I am already doing that for my introduction. To save time I just have some close friends read and give me constructive criticism. When no one cares to read my essay, I copy and paste my essay into a text to speech template and it reads my essay aloud. This allows me to hear the actual flow of my essay and I can edit as I hear mistakes and improper