“Strong Writing and Writers Don’t Need Revision” by Laura Giovanelli and “I Have A Sleep Disorder and It’s Probably Going to Kill Me or Someone Else” by Jenny Lawson

I imagine that my ideal writing process would involve knowing everything that I would like to talk about. I would be able to writing about my topic without even thinking about it. To do this is would have to do some research first. I would have to make an outline of my paper and take some notes on what I would like to talk about. This way I can know exactly what I’m talking about so that ideas and sentences can go strait from my head to my paper. Then, once I have finished the paper, I would make sure that I reread it and make so editions. This is to make sure that my paper is easy to read and free of errors. This process is ideal to me because sometimes writing can be hard, especially when writing about a difficult subject. There could be concepts or ideas that are difficult to understand. When you make an outline and take notes on the important pieces of an article, you are able to gain a better understanding of what you are writing about so that you can easily write the paper.

In “Strong Writing and Writers Don’t Need Revision” by Laura Giovanelli, she says that the editing of the paper or the revision is happening while you are writing the paper. But, the revision is not just editing. She defines revision as “the heavy lifting of working through why I’m writing, who I’m writing for, and how I structure writing logically and effectively.” Finding out why you are writing and the audience you are writing for are two things that I didn’t even think of. The audience could change the type of language that you use while writing your paper. “I Have A Sleep Disorder and It’s Probably Going to Kill Me or Someone Else” by Jenny Lawson, also shows a different type of writing process. In her text, it seems like Jenny is just talk. She didn’t have to do much research because it is a story about her life. The only research that she might have done was about sleep. Her writing process seemed to involve trying to keep the reader engaged with things such as changing in font size in dialog or jokes placed in certain spots. This worked on me and it kept me reading the story.