There are some guidelines that I try to follow whenever I am writing. At first I just try to get down all my ideas about the given subject that I am writing about. I just write whatever comes to my mind without paying attention to where it will fit later in the process. If I’m writing a sentence and something else pops into my head I’ll leave the initial sentence and start writing about the thought I just had. I will usually end up with a bunch of 2-5 sentence blocks of thoughts organized in no particular order. I do separate each idea by a bunch of lines, but that is about it for organization. This may seem chaotic and problematic to most people, but it is my way of brainstorming. I have trouble concentrating on things for a long period of time, so I have to skip around and then come back to my initial ideas (I have been doing this for all my blogs including this one).
Once I have all those blocks, I can mix some together, or use them as the bases of paragraphs. I mix and match until I have the base for my essay. Once I have this base, I can delve deeper into each of my thoughts to create the actual substance of the essay or whatever I am writing. I have not always used this process, but over time I have developed it, and it works well for me so I will continue to use it.
As far as rules, I don’t have any. Other than following the process described above, I just do what feels right. The rules I use are constantly changing as I go through different experiences and improve as a writer.
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