The depths of the writing process

 These 6 short chapters hold immense amounts of information in as few as 4 pages per chapter. Describing these chapters as cut to the bone would be an immeasurable understatement, as well as a injustice to the publishers. Many useful tips and techniques can be pulled from every chapter in this book but a couple in particular stuck their head out to me.

Free writing is a technique I have yet to truly experience or participate in. I think while it could be slightly controversial to write for a set amount of time with little to no direction planned beforehand. However I think it's a great way to get your ideas down on paper quickly as well as allowing yourself to get to the base concepts or controversies of a topic; which allows you to truly start branch off in your brainstorming and planning into vitals areas of a topic. Staying away from vague and unimportant areas of a field prevents vague arguments or statements and allow for a more persuasive and well written paper.

One of the main techniques I feel is underused, at least in my own writing process, is scheduling. Scheduling is simply the process of splitting a project into multiple steps and then assigning a time limit to each step to prevent wasting of time on one step and allowing every step to be completed by the dead line. The important part of scheduling is to prevent procrastination which I think anyone is guilty of at some point in time in their lives. Procrastination is my biggest downfall, leading me to write papers the night before they are due or rushing through a draft right before class begins just to get something turned in. Scheduling could benefit me greatly, if used properly, allowing me to complete the paper in small steps and putting my full potential as a writer into each aspect of a project.

All together these chapters addressed a lot of topics across a broad spectrum of areas within the writing process, yet still able to dive in-depth for each of them. The areas are all topics that have been addressed in previous classes and previous papers but clarified in great detail while reading this section. My own writing process has nothing to lose but only to gain from this section.