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Stop Starting at Step No. 6

Your high school writing habits have created a muscle memory that will make your college essays ten times harder than they need to be to write. Use the Steps in the Writing Process instead.

If you open up a blank Word or Google Doc, sit down, and spend 10, 20, or 30 minutes staring at a flashing cursor trying to write a perfect first sentence — I have some news for you.

You are starting at Step 6.

You are skipping over all the crucial foundation work that needs to happen before a rough draft ever exists.

Look at it this way: what if you were …

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