My writing process

When I am about to write an article, first, I will try to think about and make clear the topic I am going to write. If you are not clear about the topic you should write, it makes no sense no matter how much you write. Then I will think what kind of article I am going to write. Different styles of articles have different requirements. It's impossible for you write a novel in a debate form.
After doing this, I will do what everyone familiar, brainstorm. Just think what ever that hit your mind about the topic. The more you think the more material you can use in your write.
Now comes the most important part, making an outline. It does not need to be very long, one sentence represents every paragraph is enough, but it's essential. You can see what you article will be from your outline even before the article is finished. It happened to me before I had the habit to write outline that during my writing, I suddenly forgot what I going to write in the following part. Then I could do nothing but continue my writing in a different way. This made my article far from what I expected before writing, thus I didn't not express the idea I wanted to tell completely. So, having an outline before writing is pretty necessary.
Only after having an outline will I begin writing the article itself. It is somewhat just like retelling your outline in more words. Because I have outline, I know what I going to write, so I will pay more attention to the precision of words and fluency of the sentences.
After writing, I will have a check to see if the article really expressed what I want to say in the whole and whether there is any grammar mistakes. Then, I can tell that it's down.