The Process Of Writing: The True Writing Process

The True Writing Process Everyone is familiar with that moment when the world comes into perfect focus; the steady beating of the closest person 's heartbeat, squealing cars chasing their headlights down the nearest street, the silent scream of a fly that was swatted in the next room. This is the precise nano-second in which the human mind realizes that it has absolutely no idea what to write an essay about. Sadly for students this profound and out of body experience is only one of the five stages of the true writing process. many a teacher will casually throw around terms such as "brainstorming", "outlining", "drafting", proofreading", and "revision". This is merely the outline of the official writing process that has been widely accepted

this sad admittance of defeat is sometimes the stage that many authors find themselves and may cannot move past it the same way mourners find themselves stranded in one of the stages of grief. needless to say every student shifts in between these stages where all helplessness is overwhelming and embarrassing and there is no escape from the emotional or mental vice that is ones mind ata loss for writing material . these stages are the murky and well traversed yet still unfathomable territories that is an authors mind. that every single literate person has clearly and profoundly felt as they attempted to avoid drowning in the disparaging pool of self doubt and and irrationality that are the stages of the true writing

and the slowly the world begins to disappear. first the sound of cats yowling fades the music thaws all encompassing becomes background noise and if someone held a gun to ones head they wouldn 't be able to name the last song that played. the keys of the keyboard click in a satisfyin way even though the x key still clicks fingers fly over the keyboard making he words appear instants before they even form properly in the minds eye. irritating hair is swatted to the side and the uncomfortably lumpy seat becomes a small discomfort easily corrected with unconscious adjustments in seating posture every few minutes in order to not take away from the razor sharp focus that doesn 't even extend to the computer screen inches away from a face that could have been blind as the spell check will bring into focus after it is finished correcting the mechanics of a hurriedly transcribed essay as your m ind tries its hardest to correspond the thoughts it hasn 't finished forming to the clumsy and cumbersome fingers that are the outlet for these magnificent and much needed thoughts that must be shared with the world so quickly that when rereading them later one feels the need to proofread as a teacher will ell you