Revision

My revision process was pretty different from my writing process in terms of when and where. While I was in my room around midnight while writing it, I revised my project between classes in the library’s dunkin donuts from 12 to 2. For my project, personally, writing and revising were vastly different. Writing it gave me the chance to put down all of my ideas and link them to each other, with no regards to how easy it would be for someone else to follow. What made the reviding part of the project so much different than the first part is that it was mostly figuring out formatting and how I wanted to make the map look. I wanted a more structured and followable format rather than the asymmetrical mess it started as when I wrote it. I was able to move ideas around and connect them more directly, and see which ideas linked up together. 

While the location and time was vastly different than where I made my first draft, I felt good about it. I did not feel stressed at all. As far as I go, I thought it was fairly relaxing, and since I already had a lot of it changed from what I did while writing it, and I was able to focus more on the structure, and add and change as I went on if I needed to. Getting rid of the anxiety from knowing it was messy and incoherent is what made it so relaxing. The only way I can think to describe it would be the difference between when your mom asks you to clean and when you make the choice to clean on your own. When your mom told you to clean, you’d be pissed or at least inconvenienced. But when you choose to clean, you put on music and put in actual effort. It feels fun and relaxing, and at the end, you can just take a step back and be proud of your work.