2. Outline. Find the best way to arrange materials.

3. First draft. Write ideas into sentences and paragraphs.

4. modify. Reread the first draft and reflect. In this step, you need to add, delete, move and even rewrite. That is to say, sometimes you have to rewrite the first draft as the plastic surgeon did for Michael Jackson, and sometimes you are asked to polish the first draft sentence by sentence.

5. review. Reread and find out technical mistakes, such as spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc.

6. proofreading. Check the typos and illegible handwriting in the manuscript.

It is easy for people to think of the writing process as a recipe or a reliable picture, but unfortunately, the writing process is not the case. Writing is not a linear process, and you can't walk on a straight and smooth road all the time, especially when writing creatively. In addition, the time required for each step in the process is not fixed.

Some writers spend their whole lives writing a work, while others write very fast, just like a peasant woman making butter. Ralph Ellison wrote only one novel, Invisible Man, which is a masterpiece. In Stephen King and joyce carol oates, the writing speed is very fast and the works are constantly coming, so many works are pouring into the market. In fact, many contemporary writers use pen names to avoid excessive publicity.

Sometimes, you only need a few minutes to conceive, and you can quickly form your own thoughts; Sometimes, you will find yourself back where you were. I'm just making a draft and revising it at the same time. Don't worry, writing is like this. The writing process can be used to analyze the writer's writing style, but it cannot be regarded as a fixed program that cannot be changed.

Now that you have mastered the outline, it's time to start using the writing process to conceive and create your own ideas. Let's look at each step in detail. In this chapter, we first discuss the conception and formation, and then discuss the other four steps in the next chapter.