My process for writing my personal essay:
think of a topic. always the hardest part, takes the longest for me because i tend to choose something, than switch to something else, than go back to my original idea. which this essay i chose the topic of a bad christmas with my grandparents and sister, last christmas, but decided against writing it at the last minute because i wasnt over the situation yet.
i ended up picking the topic of the media as a way of comfort in the form of "buffy the vampire slayer." the topic was near to my heart because i watched the show religiously for 7 years. "buffy" was like a second family to me, something i always returned to when i was upset. i felt the topic pulling itself to me, and wanted to work on this for my personal essay.
i brainstormed aspects of the show to relate to my life, season by season, before i wrote the essay at all.
next i wrote several paragraphs out of order, sort of as a free write, some of which eventually made their way into my final essay.
i tend to work best when i write a lot about the topic, not necesserally in order, and then piece the writing together in a format which makes sense.
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