My Writing Process

From a young age, I have always been fascinated by writing and have practiced my craft for both academic and recreational purposes regularly. Thinking back, I have never really taken the time to properly categorize and define who I am as a writer.
After deep introspection, I think it is fair to say that, as a writer, I dedicate large amounts of time pondering and conceptualizing throughout the day while relying on last minute epiphanies to tie all of my big ideas together.
Using the Student's Guide as reference, I believe myself to fall under the two following categories:

1. Heavy Planners- I spend extensive periods of time getting ideas clear in my head before actually typing anything. Depending on how passionate I am about the topic I am writing about, I have anywhere between all of the main ideas vaguely planned to specific sentences I plan to write before typing anything.
2. Procrastinators- I cannot remember the last essay I wrote before the day it was due. Though I feel this fact transcends laziness and is essential to my writing process. When I have too much time to write an essay, my work becomes less succinct than it should be. In my opinion, the best baseball games are won in the ninth inning and I write my papers accordingly.

So far my writing process has been successful especially in timed writing assignments: I scored a 5 on my AP Literature exam by writing about Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. However, I know waiting until last minute to write my essays will bite me in the butt one of these days.

I feel that trying to use any approach besides the one I am using now would make my writing lose its crude charm, but I would have more time to revise my work.

Sidwell, Adam. "Fight Club". 9/5/2010 via Flickr. Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.