Why I Write: The Writing Process Defined

     For this first class assignment, we were asked to think about the question, "Why do you write?" It was a seemingly simple question that did not have the simple answer that I origninally thought it would.

     When I sat down to write this paper, I thought that I had to have an answer to the question of why I write. I began to panic a little bit because I honestly had no clue. I was thinking, “I know why I do everything else that I do. Can I argue that writing is like that?” But then I realized that it wasn’t. I recalled a lecture in my biopsychology class about sleep and its (apparently nonexistent) function. That’s when I decided that the two parallel each other very nicely from my point of view. It took on the form of a personal narrative interwoven with some psychology. I wanted to argue that just because I don’t know why I do something doesn’t mean that it isn’t necessary. I also aimed to incorporate a bit of my major, just to throw in some of my own personality.

 

Here, I take you through each step of my writing process, from the beginning scribbles to the final draft.