My drafting process...

When I write papers, I like to organize my thoughts for starters... thoughts being facts, flow, research... making somewhat of a skeleton of the final product just to guide my thinking. Once that's done I just write. Fairly simple to explain, not so simple to put into practice. When I write I need some background noise; something to keep my mind from overanalyzing every little detail. After all... isn't that what the drafting workshops are for? So, I'll go up to some coffee shop. City o city happens to be a few blocks down from my house... And I can actually eat stuff there which is nice. I'll go and bang out a super rough draft in about two hours. Might not even make any sense but it doesn't matter. At least I have something down on paper to make revisions on. The important thing for me is to get over that sense of writer's block that more times than not is just a scare tactic put on by whatever assignment you are in the process of completing... maybe I'm the only one there... but a nice free-write to get all the useless crap out of your system helps me to bring everything together in the end.