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Personal Narrative: The Writing Process

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Writing process People think the writing process is the hardest part of writing a paper. I would have to agree absolutely with them. There is so much to the writing process that it all get confusing. You have to make sure you have your commas and all your punctuations marks in the right spot. You have to have all your thoughts organized and make sure you don’t get off tangent. The hardest part for me is organizing my thoughts and keeping on tangent. It’s extremely hard for me to stay on one point.
The easiest part for me for the first writing draft was picking the topic. You should write about something that you want to write about. As soon as I saw gun control I knew that it was the topic for me. I knew I could write about it and do a good

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