Past Writing

When first thinking about the topic for this blog, I wanted to write about my writing process when the final product was something worthwhile. After I thought back on my past writing experiences I realize that I haven’t really liked anything I’ve written or enjoyed writing anything since sixth grade.  The last paper I wrote in sixth grade was for my social studies class and was about the Northwest Passage.  I completely messed up all the facts and confused two different time periods, but my teacher still gave me an A because it was so creative. When writing that paper I was sitting in the piano room at my parents’ house using the piano bench as a desk like I always did. I was listening to music, most likely Kansas or Don McLean (there was only a record player in the piano room and those where the two records I enjoyed then).  Before starting the actual essay, I did prewriting in the form of a sort of bubbled web. I then wrote the essay and transferred the product to a nicer paper. The only difference between the “first draft” and the “final draft” was some simple editing. I fixed the spelling and grammar and that was it. Had I made more massive changes, such as with organization and word choice, and actually revised the first draft instead of just editing it, I think the final product would’ve been even more successful.