A few weeks ago we had to read 6 Ways to be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass. In the rest of the post I will be telling you about my six steps for how i edited my creative writing essay.
1) The first step I took to write my creative non fiction essay was to write down my ideas on a piece of paper i just let the ideas flow even if it didnt make sense. i would also keep my phone handy and when i was driving I would frequently take it out and write ideas down there aswell.
2) The second step I took was writing it all down on a word document and trying to structure it into an essay. At first the order of all of my paragraphs did not make much sense. But after moving everything around a few times I was golden.
3) The next step i took was having my friend look over it. Hes an amazing writer and brutally honest which is something I need. he pretty much told me I needed to re write the entire thing and could only keep two paragraphs.
4) In class we had the editing workshop! This came extremely handy! Being able to clearly label my essay seemed to make the process of which paragraph would go where and helped me realize that I still had so much work to do! Making us think about what themes we wanted to convey also made me think more into why I was writing this essay and made me keep thinking about it well after class adn the workshop ended. I also enjoyed the peer edit! It helped me get an idea for where my other classmates are at and what they are writing about. I am very shy about showing my work especially to strangers but he was great and gave good advice.
5)I then showed to work to my professor after class and got some advice on how long my intro was adn how i needed more showing and less telling. i totally agreed with this and went home and worked on adding in more senses to make it a little easier to picture.
6) finally I sat down and spent a long time going through all my notes and finishing up looking at the context and making sure it was something that somebody would want to read. Then i dove into the grammar. I feel like there is still some surface areas that i need to work out.
What worked and didnt work??
- i feel like the most productive part of all of theses processes was the workshop in class. Now i just need to take those notes with me and do this for every essay i write in the future.
1) The first step I took to write my creative non fiction essay was to write down my ideas on a piece of paper i just let the ideas flow even if it didnt make sense. i would also keep my phone handy and when i was driving I would frequently take it out and write ideas down there aswell.
2) The second step I took was writing it all down on a word document and trying to structure it into an essay. At first the order of all of my paragraphs did not make much sense. But after moving everything around a few times I was golden.
3) The next step i took was having my friend look over it. Hes an amazing writer and brutally honest which is something I need. he pretty much told me I needed to re write the entire thing and could only keep two paragraphs.
4) In class we had the editing workshop! This came extremely handy! Being able to clearly label my essay seemed to make the process of which paragraph would go where and helped me realize that I still had so much work to do! Making us think about what themes we wanted to convey also made me think more into why I was writing this essay and made me keep thinking about it well after class adn the workshop ended. I also enjoyed the peer edit! It helped me get an idea for where my other classmates are at and what they are writing about. I am very shy about showing my work especially to strangers but he was great and gave good advice.
5)I then showed to work to my professor after class and got some advice on how long my intro was adn how i needed more showing and less telling. i totally agreed with this and went home and worked on adding in more senses to make it a little easier to picture.
6) finally I sat down and spent a long time going through all my notes and finishing up looking at the context and making sure it was something that somebody would want to read. Then i dove into the grammar. I feel like there is still some surface areas that i need to work out.
What worked and didnt work??
- i feel like the most productive part of all of theses processes was the workshop in class. Now i just need to take those notes with me and do this for every essay i write in the future.
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