Drafting & Idea Process
Coming up with the idea for my story wasn’t too hard. I had already been planning to expand on a poem I wrote last year about me struggling to deal with my emotions and insecurities. I saw this project as a way to expand more on this poem and talk about why I was feeling the way I felt and what was causing these feelings. The process of creating multiple drafts can get frustrating at times, but doing this gives you a chance to step back and analyze your piece to see your progress and find what you can do to make it better.
When writing my story I was very hesitant, I wasn’t ready to let others know what I was going through. The first draft was very sloppy, it was a mix of poetry lines and random rants. The writing requirement at this moment was only one page long. As I kept creating new drafts I would only open up a little about what was truly happening with me. Each draft was slowly getting longer and more organised, but there wasn’t quite a story to connect everything and to walk us through the timeline yet. It wasn’t until the final draft that I knew I just had to go for it and let out everything I had been holding back from sharing. The final story ended up being six and a half pages long, double spaced.
When writing my story I was very hesitant, I wasn’t ready to let others know what I was going through. The first draft was very sloppy, it was a mix of poetry lines and random rants. The writing requirement at this moment was only one page long. As I kept creating new drafts I would only open up a little about what was truly happening with me. Each draft was slowly getting longer and more organised, but there wasn’t quite a story to connect everything and to walk us through the timeline yet. It wasn’t until the final draft that I knew I just had to go for it and let out everything I had been holding back from sharing. The final story ended up being six and a half pages long, double spaced.