One of my favorite things that she has suggested is for the very beginning of writing a rough draft. It's when you write and let your conscious flow about whatever subject you happen to be writing for. It allows for an easy way to get your ideas on the page and often stops writer's block in it's tracks. All the mess you fill the page with can be edited later of course, and that way works very well! You simply sit down with your stream of consciousness rough draft and re-read it. Though I admit it is often hard not to make faces at the bad writing it's full of, but that rough writing is just for you. You can get it to a place you feel more confident with very easily!
Then, from there, it's often times not quite good enough. I like to repeat the process above again by myself. If it's not for something that I'm handing in for my college class, I will let my new and edited rough draft, or rough draft number two, sit around for a week or two before going to re-read it again. It often produces the same cringe of course! For essays, what Clouse has suggested at this step is to let your teacher or two other people read your essay. I like saving this step for after I've gone over my fictional things twice, and because of this I don't often get to have the peer review for my essays. I think I might want to try skipping re-reading my essays myself a second timebecause I know for a fact that people who are not me often see the mistakes I've made better than I do.
From there, it's either more tweaking to produce a final copy or more tweaking to produce another rough draft and go over it again and again! The good thing is that Clouse offers tips to those who don't quite know how to do it.
-Jasmine Peake
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