What I Learned In My Writing Process

For eighteen years, I have roamed this earth, and for thirteen of those years I have been able to harness my craft in writing. As I look back on those times, I see how much I have improved. I learned that I despised word count essays and loved creative writing assignments. My literacy journey began in kindergarten where they taught us how to write out the alphabet, my name, and simple sentences. I don’t remember everything that about my time in kindergarten, but I do remember how frustrated I was trying to write out my name. I would always get in trouble for forgetting to dot my i’s. It took a long time for me to do it, even now I sometimes forget to do so. Another thing that frustrated me was to write out the same sentences over and over again. As a cheat, I would always write the words down in a line so I would be completing multiple lines at once so I could get it done more quickly. The one good thing about kindergarten was that I finally could write my own name, rather than asking my mom or dad or siblings to …show more content…
First, I would research the prompt. Then I would choose a topic and research everything on the topic. I would write down the facts that I believed that connected back to the prompt. When it came to writing, I would outline based on paragraph. I would write out the reason for the paragraph and bullet point each evidence I had for that reason in the outline, with the site/book page number. After that I would write each paragraph separately and later combine them. Then I would edit everything I believed was Grammarly incorrect. If I believed that my essay was at satisfactory level, I would submit it to the teacher whose class I was doing it for. My writing process during high school, didn’t change all that much it the steps, it just became more complex. Instead of only writing about my topic and reasons supporting it, I would write a counter argument as well, to emphasize my