Major Issues of the Intro Letter - Essay Example

I find my life quite fulfilling. The reason is that being at home has given me the opportunity, not just to pursue my hobbies, but to work towards the realisation of my ambitions as a writer.

I believe that if I give you a breakdown of my typical day, you would better understand how my familial responsibilities have ultimately worked in my favour as a writer. I get up every day at 6 a.m., prepare the children for school and do housework until about 10 a.m. From then until  3 p.m. my time is my own and this time is writing time.

Without fail, I go into my small makeshift writing room at 10 a.m. and do not emerge from it until 3 p.m. If I am working on a new concept, I generally spend about 5 days surfing the internet and reading up on it. Following the collection of the necessary data, I enter the development of the concept phase. This entails the exploration of the concept from several perspectives and a critical analysis of all these angles for the determination of which one, or combination, I will pursue. After this particular decision is made, I enter the skeleton phase. This entails the drawing up of a skeleton of the project. I construct a comprehensive outline of the project and add details to every point so know exactly where I am heading and how I am going to get there. The penultimate stage is the fleshing-out stage. The writing begins at this point. Following my skeleton, I begin the writing of the project itself. When at this stage I often lose track of the time and often feel that if I don’t adjust my alarm at 3 p.m. I would extend far beyond that. The final phase, the one which I find quite boring, is the revision stage. This entails a tremendous amount of reading through my work, revising, writing and rewriting. It is, however, a necessary stage and the one which distinguishes quality output from less perfect ones.

After the children come home from school, I am generally with them, supervising their homework and preparing supper, until 6 p.m., at which time my husband comes home from work. We all sit down to dinner and by 8:00 p.m. the children are in bed and all the dishes have been done. My husband then watches his sports channels and I begin my hobby time. Two hours of reading – two hours of pleasure.

In closing, I hope that this letter has given you an idea of who I am and how my writing defines, to a large extent, who I am as a person.