Personal Narrative: My Writing As A Step-By-Step Process

I am not a creative person. Some individuals are born to be poets, actor and artist because they seem to have creativity and imagination infused into them. However, I am an accounting major who accepted a long time ago that I have logic and organization infused into me. I am wired to approach everything in steps, similar to solving a math problem. This is why I think of writing as a step-by-step process. This semester I focused on how to take a chaotic mess of information and techniques and narrow it down into an organized, well thought out essay. I found that even though this process can change based on the assignment, it usually happens in two phases: collecting materials and drafting ideas. The first essay I wrote this semester was an analysis …show more content…
All of my sources came from the Ole Miss virtual library, but I changed what reviews I used several times. My goal was the find three movie review on Full Metal Jacket that were equally well written, but this brought different ideas to the paper. Another activity we did during the material gathering page was a signal phrase and citing exercise. I still remembered from high school and Writing 101 how to do this, but I usually slack off on signal phrases. This made me isolate some of my quotes and spend time solely thinking about signal phrases. Now that I had all of the materials I needed for the paper I moved onto …show more content…
Even though each assignment required different materials for preparation, I had to do that before I could go anywhere with it. Then drafting was my time to make sense of it all, both in my mind and on paper. Was this the most creative way to write about film? Probably not, but I do not believe that is the kind of writer I am. I approach writing the same way I approach any other task. It is a process that will not be great in the beginning, but can be with enough time and