After gathering a sufficient amount of information using the sources I had found, I began to write my first draft of the research essay. This process began by first trying to figure out what my thesis statement would be as the basis to which I would develop my whole paper around. This was actually the hardest part of the writing process for me, because, at this point, I was still uncertain at to which aspect of Kahlo’s life I wanted to focus in on. Once I was able to write my thesis, developing the rest of the rough draft wasn’t as difficult. For the draft, I wasn’t as focused on the structure or the flow of the paper nearly as much as I was focused on getting my ideas down on paper. This would help make the writing process a bit easier as I would go back to later edit.