My Writing Process

I used to live really far from my high school, so I would spend a lot of time thinking on the drive there and back. With an excessive amount of stagnant time, I think this contributed to me becoming a Heavy Planner.

In a way, I am almost a combination of a Heavy Planner and Procrastinator. It's hard for me to sit down and write what I want to say unless I've spent a considerable amount of time thinking. As such, I usually end up writing everything relatively close to the deadline (Procrastinator) but finally have something I am confident and interested in writing. (Heavy Planner)

I think the advantages of my writing process is that I spend far less time revising than some of my peers. Usually before I move on to the next paragraph I have already revised a couple of my sentences so when I do a final read over I have far less to change.

I don't think this is a successful approach at all. I wish I was someone who could make an outline, research everything ahead of time, make small bullet points or topic sentences - but I could never do that. Everything I want to write must be carefully thought out before my fingers even touch the keyboard otherwise I just end up sitting there for hours on end. "Sequential Composers" seems like the most efficient way of writing. I mean it follows the most traditional writing and revision process that middle school English teachers tried to impose on us. I applaud those who are able to consider this their writing process.

If I was to compare my writing process to anything, it would probably be "Word Vomit." I first heard this term in the movie Mean Girls when Cady Heron was talking to Janice Ian. I think about my words so much ahead of time that when I finally feel ready to sit down and write that it all just comes out at once and my typing can't keep up with my thoughts.

I typed in clocks to Google Images because I thought that would be representative of my writing process, but then this picture came up and I thought it actually fit a lot better. So many dandelions. So many thoughts.

F, Andy. "Dandelion clocks near Long Itchington." 5/15/09 via geograph.org.uk.
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EDIT:

After reading some other people's blogs it was interesting to see their writing process and their thoughts on it. I read Namratha's blog who has the same writing process as me and Evan, who is the complete opposite of me. It made me realize that there are other ways of going about writing and people have various styles. Reading these blogs shows that you can change if you want to, but it may take awhile and a lot of effort and I'm not sure if I want to change. Like when people know something is bad for them, but they do it anyways? Probably sums up my writing process. I like writing but when you have a set rhythm, as evidenced by my own writing tactics and those of my peers, it's really hard to change that.