My Writing Process

I'm a passionate writer and love (and often hate) the process in which I write any piece. Of the four mentioned writing processes, I define myself as a heavy reviser. My ideas start small and unstructured but develop into clearer and stronger ideas and execution through revision, with a clear goal running throughout the piece.

Yan Qin Weng,
"Gulls by the Shore, Stories by the Sea"
6/11/14 via tumblr Public Domain
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While I do most of my work in a a revision stage, I do find myself acting as a heavy planner on occasion when I approach a topic I am particularly interested in or passionate about. This, however, is not a very frequent practice, simply because I do write stronger through the heavy revision approach.

My approach to writing tends to be an efficient and effective, especially with my writing style. When I plan too heavily, I write with a lot of what I call fluff. My writing becomes cushioned by unnecessarily wordy descriptions and repetitive sentences. It is through my revision that I trim down this fluff and structure a more direct piece of writing. I write in a style that relies on a clear progression of logic, and writing it out all in one go then revising heavily helps me to sort out the ideas and elaborate where they may be lacking. However, this approach doesn't always work in the long run because if I do fall short in the revision area, the piece can come across as scattered, disorganized, and wordy. It is because I have fallen into that trap before, I'm focused on the revision process.

In regards to approaching writing differently, I may want to try a sequential composure method of structuring my ideas before writing. It won't be as dense and wordy as it would be if I were to plan heavily, but simply help me organize my ideas before the revision process.

REFLECTION:

After reading through the posts of Michael Gregory Fisher and Laurence Wolf I came to understand just how different everyone is when it comes to approaching writing and how they feel about their own styles. I have always loved writing and reading through the posts of my classmates, its refreshing to know that other people do as well. It's a much different environment than a high school english class where a good two thirds of the students hate to topic. I found reliability in Laurence's style and process, seeing that we're both heavy revisor. In Michaels post, I found a lot of insight as to how someone with a different writing style thinks and progresses through their writing. Both posts opened my eyes to just how aware people are of their own writing and their feelings toward it.