The Collection of the Necessary Data - Essay Example

I believe that if I give you a breakdown of my typical day, you would better understand how my familial responsibilities have ultimately worked in my favor as a writer. I get up every day at 6 a.m., prepare the children for school and do housework until about 10 a.m. From then until 3 p.m. my time is my own and this time is writing time.Without fail, I go into my small makeshift writing room at 10 a.m. and do not emerge from it until 3 p.m. If I am working on a new concept, I generally spend about 5 days surfing the internet and reading up on it.

Following the collection of the necessary data, I enter the development of the concept phase. This entails the exploration of the concept from several perspectives and a critical analysis of all these angels for determination of which one, or combination, I will pursue. After this particular decision is made, I enter the skeleton phase. This entails the drawing up of a skeleton of the project. I construct a comprehensive outline of the project and add details to every point and so know exactly where I am heading and how I am going to get there.

The penultimate stage is the fleshing out stage. The writing begins at this point. Following my skeleton, I begin the writing of the project itself. When at this stage I often loose track of the time and often feel that if I don't adjust my alarm at 3 p.m. I would extend far beyond that. The final phase, the one which I find quite boring, is the revision stage. This entails a tremendous amount of reading through my working, revising, writing and rewriting. It is, however, a necessary stage and the one which distinguishes the quality output from less than perfect ones.

After the children come home from school, I am generally with them, supervising their homework and preparing supper, until 6 p.m., at which time my husband comes home from work. We all sit down to dinner and by 8:00 p.m. the children are in bed and all the dishes have been done. My husband then watches his sports channels and I begin my hobby time. Two hours of reading - two hours of pleasure.In closing, I hope that this letter has given you an idea of who I am and how my writing defines, to a large extent, who I am as a person.