Revising my Writing Process

As this class comes to a close I will be reviewing a few blogs I wrote at the very beginning of the semester about my Writing Process and my Calendar.

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Writing Process

In my first blog, I classified myself as a procrastinator with the hopes of writing more like a sequential composer.  I can definitely say that procrastination is still a factor in my writing, but my processes in revision and rewriting have definitely improved.  Most of my writing in high school was a single draft timed essay, so I have become used to quickly writing a large amount of passable writing.  The course forced me to go through long brainstorming, planning, and revision.  Instead of crashing through a first draft and publishing it as a final, I felt a lot more comfortable with going back and rereading my writing.  This process definitely encouraged me to go towards a more sequential composer style of writing.

Calendar

Despite improvements, I definitely did not get rid of procrastination and spent many Saturdays completely devoted to blogging.  As I noted in my calendar, I was not used to having homework time in the middle of the day.  I spent the last four years doing all of my homework either in class or starting at 10PM after extra curriculars.  The work load this semester was close to what I expected, but time management was a lot more difficult.  My habit at working in the later hours continued and I wasted a lot of daylight.  This forced the blogging to Saturday as I spent my weekdays working on other homework and pushing the blogging as late as possible.  Unfortunately, after multiple weeks of doing this I did get very good at dedicating 12 hours to just blogging, but it was not the most productive thing to do.  I did improve as the semester went on, as I was tired of blogging all day every Saturday.  The blogs also became a little less time consuming, which was definitely appreciated.  In the future my time management could either massively improve or ruin my chances at success.  Currently I'm headed in the right direction, especially as my class scheduling is infinitely better than when I had no idea what to expect.