As a teacher, you know the effortful task of teaching students about the six steps of the Writing Process.  The steps should be taught and repeated so that students will always know how to communicate thoughts and ideas in competent, confident way. Now, I’d like to let you in on a little secret.  As a student, I enjoyed the subject of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary. I even loved journal writing.  But, the truth was that I loathed formal writing.  I had most of the pieces of the writing puzzle, but I didn’t know how to fill in the gaps to bring it to completion.