Thoughts about First Paper

            Deciding on a topic, organizing my inner thoughts and then putting said ‘thoughts’ onto paper is as natural, to me, as breathing. I love to write, I always have.

             I find the experience of putting pen to paper, in my efforts to convey my thoughts, to be rewarding. However, I don’t think I ever gave it much thought as to ‘How’ I worked through the process and now that I am trying to put my thoughts into words regarding my ‘process’ I am experiencing a phenomena known as ‘Writers Block.’ Therefore, with this obstacle in front of me, I have decided to meditate and in my trance like state, I came up with a possible ‘process’ that seems to make some sense as to “How I write.”

I live in an unorganized organized world. I am the mother of two very active teenage daughters so it should ‘go without saying’ that I multi-task with high levels of behind the scenes success. What that means to me is this: I ‘calculate’ and ‘execute’ at the same time and I don’t seek out counsel or accolades during the ‘process’ of undertaking whatever task is in front of me. I just ‘get it done.’  Same holds true when I write. I have a lot of behind the scenes thoughts and rather then taking up precious time to draw a web of thoughts on paper, (planning and organizing) I ‘free-write’ and write a draft and then I read what I wrote out loud. Hearing my vocal voice say aloud the words my internal voice whispered assists me in determining if my I ‘thought’ are cohesive and organized in a favorable fashion. As I hear my words, I tweak and reorganize (my drafting and re-writing process) and by the time I am finished reading aloud, I have, what I presume to be, a well thought out and organized paper.