The Process of Writing

It is finally done…well almost. I have sort of successfully completed my first full draft of my senior thesis. The countless hours of research and writing and more research culminating into an almost 30-page paper, and there is still more work to be done.

Before I even finished this draft, I jotted down all the things that were missing or that I needed to research more into. When I finally sat down to write the paper, it was slow-moving. I felt like I was not doing to topic justice, and when I write I tend to skip around. Tired of writing one part just skip to the conclusion, or better yet, simply begin in any random place. It is hard to distill all the pages and pages of notes that I’ve taken over the course of my research. Trying to make sense and order of all the information and themes and events that have been rattling around in your head is admittedly hard. I just kept reminding myself that this was just the first draft and that thinking is supposed to be hard.

It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be there.

There are still sources that I need to read, grammar edits to make, formatting to correct, new ideas to introduce, rearranging of flow, and a thesis to iron out. But, for now I will just enjoy submitting this first paper because it means one step closer to the final product.