Revisiting my Writing Process

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I thins blog post I intend to reflect on how well I predicted my writing process as well as my time management skills at the beginning of this course.

Let's start with time management. I think college was really eye opening for me and that in a lot of ways, what I predicted at the beginning of the year was true. I have been more organized and more self-motivated than I have ever been in my life. I did not stick precisely to the schedule that I created for myself at the beginning of the year but nevertheless, I have developed a strong routine that takes care of all of my needs both academic, personal, and extracurricular very well.

My writing process, on the other hand, is very different. At the beginning of the year, I considered myself to be a heavy reviser with the desire to mix in more planning into my writing style. Essentially, I found myself to be someone who can take a load of b.s. and turn it into something presentable by revising it enough. I found very quickly this year that that is in fact not true. I don't have enough time to do that. I am much more of a sequential composer. Unless it is very explicitly required, I am fairly resistant to making a lot of drafts of my work. I think I am fairly good at writing so I simply write my initial draft more slowly and then revise it as I go.

Frankly, moving forward I see myself doing much of the same. In regard to my time management skills, I think this is a good thing. In regard to my writing process, however, I think my writing process is not necessarily bad if it works for me. To make it truly work, I should probably work to better incorporate revisions and feedback. Then I should be set.