Blog Post 36: Discovering Your Writing Process

I consider myself to be a procrastinator. While writing I am slow to start and then once I do start I get distracted very easily by anything and everything on the internet. However over the course of the semester I have been changing my writing process in order to become a more successful writer. Some change I have made is the inclusion of more pre-writing to become a more heavy planner. The main activities that have had an influence on my writing process are when we learned SOAPSTone and having to make more detailed outlines. I found these to be especially helpful in pre-writing and also found them to simplify the writing process and make it easier to write organized and thoughtful drafts. Throughout the semester my writing process has changed and become more heavy pre-writing. I use multiple pre-writing techniques before I write my papers or create a public argument. Some new things that I tried are heavy pre-writing and I also started to write multiple drafts during my writing process. One thing that I could try in the future if I have more time while writing is have some of my later drafts peer-revised. This semester it was usually only my first or second draft getting peer-revised so also having my later drafts revised could have the potential to significantly improve my paper.