My writing process is like an old man who's hard-of-hearing trying to tune a piano. The process is painful, takes a long time, and has absolutely no guarantee of producing a good outcome.
During my writing process, I typically like to brainstorm in order to get a strong hold on some ideas before I begin to write a draft. The draft is always written in free-hand because I find it difficult to formulate my ideas when typing. This usually gets down my thoughts, and then the hard part comes. As I read my draft I find my sentences to be like the keys of an untuned piano -- they never sound quite right. Going through and tweaking sentences, paragraphs, and ultimately the entire piece usually yields a decent outcome, but I still like to get more input. It's always helpful for me to have someone proofread my piece for me to catch errors and give me some input on the piece as a whole.
Overall, I feel that my writing process could definitely be improved. I like things to be perfect from the start, and I think that makes this process more difficult for me than it has to be. With some practice though, I feel that there is hope for anyone to become good at anything despite the challenges. After all, look at Beethoven -- maybe a deaf man can tune a piano.
