Blog #4

I think my writing process has been effective. I started writing on drafting say and continued making progress throughout the week. I went to the library Friday and really focused on getting a good rough draft made. I still would have liked to go to the library to make more meaningful progress before Thursday (the day before the peer review), but that deadline inspired me. Now, it is Sunday, and I'm at the library again. I plan to make any final changes to my draft and record it tomorrow. Again, waiting until now to work on revising my rough draft wasn't the best idea, but I am happy with my progress. My writing process has always been procrastinatory, and my best results have come from setting smaller deadlines for myself. Or, more accurately, when my teachers set smaller deadlines for the class. I just can't focus when the threat of turning the assignment in late is urgent. I tend to do my best writing late at night, but there are so many cases where I can immediately tell I won't have a productive writing session. In those cases, I typically struggle to think of what to write for about 15 minutes and then do something else (generally non-productive). Having smaller deadlines makes that way easier. Knowing that my writing sessions will be around 1-2 hours helps me stay unstressed, yet focused. An improvement I'd love to make throughout college is being more motivated to set those deadlines for myself and not worry about cramming all my work late. Again, with the memoir, I've been pretty good about splitting up my work, but given the date it was assigned, I know I could improve how I go about writing.