Escaping Reality When Pen and Paper Meet
Do you know what it is like to stick your feet in the ocean? The smell of salt water fills the air along with a nice tropical breeze. You have a beach chair at the edge of the water letting the waves crash into your feet. You watch as the sun falls into the water causing the sky and earth to meet. Here one can feel refreshed and freed. I am blessed to rediscover this feeling many times a week when my pen and paper meet. Writing set my soul free.
My writing process is a long drawn out internal disaster which eventually turns into a well written piece. I would not change my writing process for anything. However less procrastination and better spelling couldn’t hurt me! My writing …show more content…
A draft written so terrible most do not even consider it a first draft. After a couple days of working on my zero draft I begin to look at the process of a well written piece. Leaving the drafts for about two days at this point is best for me. This allows me to return to my writing with a refreshed mind I do not become stressed with my writing.
With a refreshed mind, editing is the next step in my writing process. Editing is the most stressful part in my writing process. Minor and only a few major adjustments take place. Spelling, grammar and punctuations are things I become highly aware of during my editing stage. At this point the Professor is the only set of eyes that are allowed to read my writing piece. However it’s only because my grade depend on it. To me anything besides the final copy should not be read nor …show more content…
Sometimes I feel my paper needs no editing. Other times I feel like there is far to much editing to do. Bottom line is that there is always room for editing. “A piece of writing is never finished. It is delivered to a deadline, torn out of the type writer on demand, sent off with a since of accomplishment and shame and pride and frustration" (Donald Murray 198) So rather I catch what needs to be done right away or I catch it after ive done my final piece I don’t beat myself up about it. My first English Professor taught me No matter how great, there is always room for editing!
To be honest I learned a lot of things in my first year of English 101, that I will forever follow me in my writing career. I think the most important thing the Professor taught us that year was how to properly write an essay paper. We learned MLA style in Microsoft Word. This style can be used for just about every assignment in my college Johnson Three career. Knowing the format of a paper should be written and how the content should be writen is highly important as well. We were also taught how to use Work Cite in Microsoft which is needed to know basis. Citing work is how you avoid any copy write issues. I must admit before my first year of collage I had no idea how this
Do you know what it is like to stick your feet in the ocean? The smell of salt water fills the air along with a nice tropical breeze. You have a beach chair at the edge of the water letting the waves crash into your feet. You watch as the sun falls into the water causing the sky and earth to meet. Here one can feel refreshed and freed. I am blessed to rediscover this feeling many times a week when my pen and paper meet. Writing set my soul free.
My writing process is a long drawn out internal disaster which eventually turns into a well written piece. I would not change my writing process for anything. However less procrastination and better spelling couldn’t hurt me! My writing …show more content…
A draft written so terrible most do not even consider it a first draft. After a couple days of working on my zero draft I begin to look at the process of a well written piece. Leaving the drafts for about two days at this point is best for me. This allows me to return to my writing with a refreshed mind I do not become stressed with my writing.
With a refreshed mind, editing is the next step in my writing process. Editing is the most stressful part in my writing process. Minor and only a few major adjustments take place. Spelling, grammar and punctuations are things I become highly aware of during my editing stage. At this point the Professor is the only set of eyes that are allowed to read my writing piece. However it’s only because my grade depend on it. To me anything besides the final copy should not be read nor …show more content…
Sometimes I feel my paper needs no editing. Other times I feel like there is far to much editing to do. Bottom line is that there is always room for editing. “A piece of writing is never finished. It is delivered to a deadline, torn out of the type writer on demand, sent off with a since of accomplishment and shame and pride and frustration" (Donald Murray 198) So rather I catch what needs to be done right away or I catch it after ive done my final piece I don’t beat myself up about it. My first English Professor taught me No matter how great, there is always room for editing!
To be honest I learned a lot of things in my first year of English 101, that I will forever follow me in my writing career. I think the most important thing the Professor taught us that year was how to properly write an essay paper. We learned MLA style in Microsoft Word. This style can be used for just about every assignment in my college Johnson Three career. Knowing the format of a paper should be written and how the content should be writen is highly important as well. We were also taught how to use Work Cite in Microsoft which is needed to know basis. Citing work is how you avoid any copy write issues. I must admit before my first year of collage I had no idea how this