What You Mean Reading Room . She lives in New Zealand and is Vice President of Greene Haven Health Products and Yaki Associates. Writing does not come easy for most people, even the best writers. It doesn't often look that way. Watch a writer at work, and the words seem to come through the fingers as if taking dictation from some inner voice.
Research shows that expert writers are thinking strategically.
On a first draft, they're not concerned much with rules of grammar, spelling, style, word choice. Before forging ahead again, they will read what they've written so far to regain their bearings. Only if you're very lucky. Real writing is rewriting. You condense, expand, rearrange, rephrase, clarify, add in, throw out.