When I'm assigned the task of writing an essay, the first thing I do is panic. I panic because I seem to always run into the same problems with my writing process. I don't have a central idea. I have no idea what I really want to write. When I was younger, I always started by creating a network or pattern because that's what my teachers encouraged me to do in school, but I don't do that anymore. Now I sit in front of my laptop, take a deep breath, close my eyes, collect my thoughts and write. I just let my thoughts flow onto the page. When I don't feel pressure to write for an audience, my writing is completely different than when I write something that I know my professor or peers will read. As I write this exact sentence, I'm not sure where I'm going with this. My writing process is unorthodox and unorganized, but it's what I do every time. When I stop trying to follow the linear model of writing, explained by Nancy Sommers as the process of forming an idea, writing about it, and then revising it, I feel like I'm more capable of discovering something meaningful in my words. When I am forced to write a thesis and base my paper solely on it, the result is not as good as I think it should be. It diminishes the potential for growth of my ideas and discoveries. It limits me to a single statement and narrows my thoughts, preventing discovery. When it comes to editing, I am very lazy and lack the desire to drastically change my article. I do exactly what Nancy Sommers, author of the article "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Writers," says not to do; I am fond of what I wrote. The thought of starting over and throwing away what I've already written... in the middle of the paper... I have to find out. We wrote an essay in class in which we had to reflect on the ancient act of telling stories. and why people do it. When I wrote my first draft for that article, I was so confused. I had no idea why people told stories. I knew which people were telling their personal reasons, but I didn't know how to incorporate that information with my personal feelings about the stories. It was only after the second round of peer reviews that I realized that simply by taking into account their comments, which were not many, I had to go with my gut feelings about my article; my significant feeling. I had a feeling that there was something very wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on it. If I were a more experienced writer, perhaps I would have continued writing, not until I had filled the required number of pages, but until I found the words I was looking for.