My writing process I believe starts with gathering thoughts and ideas, just writing them down.  I write down every thought that comes to my head on a sheet of notebook paper.  After I have done that I start outlining my text based on the ideas that I wrote down on my paper.  I have to be in a very quite, cool place where there is no noise to be heard or any thing that can distract me from writing.   After I outline I start my free writing which is putting the ideas and concepts into paragraph or text form.  After I finish writing I leave my paper alone and close out what ever I was writing on and leave the whole thing alone. The next time I start back writing is maybe like 5 hours later.  As I get back in my writing mode, I first edit any mistakes I have previously made when I wrote the paper the first time, Then I edit mistakes that I find.  After I have finished editing, I proofread and try to come up with more grammatical structured sentences then the ones already written.  After I do that, I let someone else proofread my paper for any other mistakes I have in the text .