Starting Starting a writing project, you will face many decisions before you sit at a keyboard or pick up a pen.
Planning is the best way to start.
Some people assume a real writer can write, word by perfect word. More experienced writers know that writing is a process. Writing is a series of activities that start when you begin thinking about a topic and end when you complete a final draft. Seeing the steps Writing is a recursive activity. As the arrows show, planning is not over as drafting begins, drafting is not over as the major activity shifts to revising, and so forth.