Writing Process of Famous Author

Suzanne Collins is the Author of Hunger Games, Mocking Jay, Catching Fire and more. When Collins begins to write a book she gets some cereal to clear her head because the less she is worried about the more she can focus on her task at hand.  With that said, she writes in the morning, anywhere from 3 hours to early afternoon.  A lot of the times, all she does is sit there and stare at the wall, which might sound pretty unproductive but in reality she is sorting out the characters and plots.  In her mind, thinking for three hours and not writing a word down is still a productive day. While she is writing it is hard for her to listen to music with words, so she usually listens to Mozart if she has something on.  Every day varies, but she quits once she is mentally drained, but still continues to think about the characters as she goes throughout her day, because she can be sure they are well developed. She puts herself in her characters shoes and thinks about how they’d react to the situations at hand.

The writing process of Collins is different than most because several people say they have better success writing at night and sometimes at odd hours of the morning. A lot of people would think they are being unproductive if they did not get anything down on paper after three hours and think it was just a waste of time, not a successful day. Collins process of writing until she is mentally drained is a way for college students to think about starting their work well before the night before so that there is time to stop and start later on. Not many students are thinking about their papers throughout the day what they can write like Collins either.