Writing Tips - Planning Your Writing

A lot of beginners go off the Rails when they've got a nice clean sheet of paper or a blank screen in front of they've got to say and thread it with words - meaningful words.

The Way to avoid the cold feeling of panic is to have a plan of action. That the type of plan works best for you depends on your Personality. Some of you Will make structured lists, with itemized every small detail and all the T's crossed. Or you may have a vague set of instructions, sometimes little more Than remembering to have a beginning, middle and end. Others of you Will Find That the best way to work is just to start writing and see where it takes you.

The way to find what yaw work for you is to plan out some example pieces of work. You Might never write tell, But Will the practice benefit you. For example, how would you go about writing an episode of your favorite TV show, or an article on a local photography Exhibition, or a review of a best-seller? By writing a plan of Approach, you'll give yourself an idea of what the final piece of work would require. When I started writing short stories I used to deconstruct famous stories and plan re-write how I'd say.

The Planning step also gives you a check as to whether or not you actually want to write the piece. And Remember, IF you plan not to have a plan, still you've decided on a plan. And do not stop here.

It's now time to plan your opening sentence. Readers get to keep them reading you need a Hook, say something That Will Lead in Data and keep there say what you've told broke broke didn't know needed to know. Crime writers kill people; romance novelists have people get divorced, good writers hint at or Conflict But come to hide it in the middle of something else. Journalists Scream at you in huge type and article writers ask you rhetorical questions, all in the first five seconds of reading.

Go away and study the structure of some writing. Look at how writers grab you and reel you in like an Expert fisherman.

And ask yourself, "How Would I Do That?"