The importance of development and revising

Have you ever written several paragraphs, and then realized that the words didn’t come out quite as you had anticipated? I know I have. At times I can’t quite put into words every thought, plot, and plan that is floating around in my head. After writing a paragraph, I’ll read it a second time and deem it to be a bit wide of the mark. I’ll find myself refining it several times until I get it to come out right. Each time I refine my work, it usually comes out better than it had been beforehand. In fact, the paragraph that you are reading now has been edited and revised numerous times.

Development and revision hold a very important role in any piece of writing. For example, if somebody were to write a four page essay without revising or further developing any ideas at least once, then the essay would probably be a very deplorable one. Development will further expand your ideas that may contain too little meat. It adds more framework, and will usually help the reader to better understand your writing. When you refine your work, you are perfecting it to get it just right. You are examining your ideas with a magnifying glass to see where the impurities are, and then removing them. Any written piece can always be improved to outshine its original.

Checklist:

1. Get all your ideas out on paper. It doesn’t matter if it’s not exactly how you want. Do not look for any grammatical errors!
2. Develop your ideas more thoroughly.
3. Take a break from your writing, and then come back so that your mind is refreshed.
4. Look through each paragraph and make sure all ideas are related.
5. Cut anything that is irrelevant.
6. Go buy yourself a mocha.