• Brainstorm: This is, without a doubt, the easiest part of the writing process. Once you have that idea, write it down!
• Outline: This is where you make sense of the productive mess you created while brainstorming. Plan your story out, chapter by chapter, or plot point by plot point.
• First draft: Now, this is an entirely subjective statement, but it is for sure the hardest step in the writing process. The ideas that were born in your brainstorm, that become solidified in your outline, are now fully fleshed out in your first draft
• Workshop: This is the fun part if you’ve got a good group of fellow writers and a thick skin. It is crucial that you find a group of writers (even just one other writer will do) rather than asking someone who is unfamiliar with the prompt and a stranger to the craft of writing. Keep in mind that just because someone likes to read books it doesn’t mean they can offer advice.
• “Final” draft: Whoever coined the term “final draft” is the biggest gaslighter ever. Why say something is final when we all know good and well that writing is never complete. There are only drafts that are good enough to go to print.