Monday, June 1, 2015

Day 1: Cabin Chipmunk: 6/1/15

Well it has been about a year since I was really last wrote the section I am currently working on.  So the goals I set for myself at 9am were to read through what I had written for this section so far and get my thoughts back onto the same path I was following when I began writing this section a year ago.  After that I planned to continue writing where I had left off.  Well, those were the plans.  First I should explain a little bit of my writing process for your understanding.  As I write, if I do not know how I want to perfectly express my thought or if I am having troubles working out an idea I write in bold so I know to come back to it later to edit.  So, this morning at 9am, as I started to read what I had written, I stumbled upon a section of notes/writing in bold that I absolutely know I had turned into prose and had un-bolded.  So I had to re-write 5 paragraphs I had already written a year ago in order to get to where I wanted to start today at 9am.  After re-writing those darn 5 paragraphs, I was able to read through what I had written a year ago and get my thoughts back on the same path while editing the crappy quality of writing I had written a year ago.  After that I was able to write an additional 2 paragraphs.  Now I am left with figuring out the order of what I am going to write next.  My process for this is to go through my notes and copy and paste them into my working draft in the order in which I want to discuss them or use them as evidence.  This I will do at home tonight so that I can spend as much time in this room as possible clacking away at the keyboard.

1 comment:

  1. I got the same problem to rewrite some of the paragraphs I wrote long time ago. After the rewrite, every detail will come back to your mind.

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