Ryan+Law's+Memoir+Reflection

When the class was assigned to write a memoir, I wasn't absolutely certain what I should write about. I floated between a few ideas before I decided on one. I had written a paper on the same topic in high school, but that paper was just supposed to be a descriptive essay. I always knew the memory had a special place in my mind, it was just time share why I liked it so much.

My plan was just to get the basic story onto paper and then build from there. The zero draft really helped with that. I was able to just get what I wanted to convey out and then able to go back and add to it later in the rough draft. Since I had written about it so long ago, I had a little idea of how to tackle the situation.

I basically started the entire process with the zero draft. I didn't have to brainstorm but rather just get it all down into a notebook. I decided that I wanted to change it to fit into more of the memoir sense instead of being just a descriptive essay, which was covered more in the process of the rough draft.

I had some feedback during the peer evaluations and also from Dr. Hartman. The people in my group and Dr. Hartman showed me where the vivid parts of the essay were to give me an idea of what else to incorporate in my paper. Also, the introduction process we went through in class helped me devise a good topic paragraph and set the tone for the entire paper.

As far as revisions, I revised the introduction after the day in class where we discussed this and I decided to go back and try to add more detail and imagery through the entire paper. I had to change the conclusion to fit the rest of the tone. I went back and opened the rough draft final and just made changes from there.

I wasn't sure of going back and adding more details. I didn't want to make it too wordy or take away from the story itself. I didn't really proofread because I just used the rough draft version and I had proofread that.

I don't follow the writing process exactly. Everyone does it differently and I'm no exception. I'm not really a brainstormer. I just like to get right to it and write. I probably wouldn't change anything about the writing process I had.