Questions

Like any endeavor in life or business, in writing, a good end result is often attributed to a good starting plan. Just to sit down and to start to write can be effective as a jumping off point to figure out what your ideas are. But once you’ve put your main ideas into words, take some time to plan how those ideas relate to your main point and how the relate to each other. This process will help to ensure the composition flows from one sentence, one paragraph, or one chapter to the next.

 

To plan your next writing project, ask yourself the following questions.

What are you REALLY trying to say?

Look at your main ideas and try to sum up each point in a sentence. Consider what purpose each scene or section serves. What is each scene or section really about? What meaning do you want the reader to gain? How does it move the story forward?

When you know the main point of each section in your composition, then it’s easier to determine what needs to go where, what to keep and what to cut, and how much time to spend on each topic or scene. Everything that doesn’t move toward the main idea can go.

What arrangement is most effective?

One of the first questions to ask yourself when planning a composition is: what is the best way to present your main ideas? Or in a narrative work, such as fiction or memoir, where are your main scenes and how do they best come together?

In an instructional or academic work, you might dedicate a chapter to each main topic you want to cover. For example, in an article about types of military jets, you use a section for fighter planes, a section for interceptors, and a section for bombers. Then once you’ve explained what fighters, interceptors, and bombers are, you can then explain how a fighter’s characteristics differs from an interceptor’s or how some jets have the characteristics of both bombers and fighters.

In a short narrative work, you might only have one main scene. But within that scene you can break away from the narrative to explain the action. In a longer work with several scenes, you can dedicate a chapter to each main scene. Putting them in order will depend on chronology and dramatic effect. Keep in mind that your order will likely change as you write and revise. 

How much space do you need?

Another important question to consider is the length of the composition. How much page space do you have to work with? Although you want to communicate your message in as few words as possible, some ideas need more space than others. If you write too long, you risk stretching out your ideas so much they become too diluted to be relevant.

The amount of page space you need is directly related to your topic and focus. For instructional works, you need enough space to introduce the subject, outline the main points in brief, explain them with examples, and then summate your purpose again in conclusion. In a narrative work, like fiction or memoir, you need enough space to thoroughly flesh out a scene, portray the action, and communicate your ideas and themes.

Planning Your Next Project

A well-planned composition will ensure each idea is explained and each scene is developed. And writing will become easier when you work from a plan, even if you adapt and change the plan later. Using these questions to plan your next composition will help solidify your message and save you time during the revision stage.


- Melinda Copp

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You know, I don’t think anything I’ve ever written has generated so much honest emotion right from the very soul of my reader.

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Okay, enough of that stuff. Now, sharpen up and pay attention.

Listen: Did you ever wonder playing mobile phone games could remove your writers block?

I bet you will be asking how the hell can a mobile phone remove your writers block.

Don’t worry, before you even finished this particular post, you are almost on your way to the ultimate break through.



First thing first, if you doesn’t know what writers block is, it’s actually in my way of saying…

“No Ideals To Write !”

What it means is, no matter what publication you are writing right now, be it a blog post, a sales copy or an article, you will usually write a few words or sentence, and then stop and start thinking what to write next.

This is a common error communication between our mind to our hands for most people.

Even the best salesman you could possibly find, if you ever tell him to sit down and write his sales pitch, he might just look at the paper with a pen in his hand thinking, “man, how am I going to start?”

Why?

Because writing is the most difficult subject in the world, and is true that most people can talk very well but cannot write very well.

So where and how do you get ideals in your head to write swiftly like as thought you talking to a friend or whoever you can think of?

Is simple…

Just Movement !

And here’s my secret.

As you know I’m working as a store man in my father’s industrial gas company, the only free time I have is my lunch time.

During my lunch time, after I finish my food, I usually take the left over 45 minutes to play with my mobile phone game.

While playing with my mobile phone game, what I usually do is turn on my mp3 player and listen to audio seminars or interviews by great copywriters such as Gary Halbert, John Carlton, Dan kennedy and many others.

When I’m playing and listening, ideals will start to slowly flow in my head, when this ideal started to flow, I will usually write them down in short form on my small little note book which I carry around in my pocket wherever I go.

I doesn’t know why, but if I’m not wrong, is all about subconscious and the hand moment that causes the brain to open up and welcoming ideals to enter.

You see, the reason I use mobile phone game and not video or online game, is because, usually mobile phone games are easy to play and doesn’t need to think to much of it, you just need to concentrate.

And let me tell you, thinking and concentrating is two different thing, do not mix them up together.

Here’s an example that might sum up the two big words.

Imagine you are having sex with your girlfriend or your wife or anyone you could possibly think of, do you ever think of what sex position you are gonna do next to make your opposite sex partner more enjoyable?

I bet not, is all automatic, unless you are still a virgin, then there’s nothing I can say.

What you usually do is concentrate your enjoyment of the sex session, right?

Come on, you don’t think to enjoy, do you?

So back to the mobile phone game, is the same, I concentrate on playing my game with my hand and listen to the audio, there is nothing much to think about in your mind.

But of course, you should not play games that need to think much such as RPG or RTS games. I usually play snake or brick games, those games are just common sense games, you will only need to concentrate to really win.

Don’t scoff.

I have done it and it really works, so if you really want to remove you writers block, and let your mind open up to ideals of wisdom…

Do it !

I promise, you won’t believe how powerful this method is, I swear.

Stay Writers Block Free,



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- The Bad Blogger

My story idea is complete, along with synopsis and book structure…I know what each chapers is going to be about but heck everytime i sit down I delete every thing I write because it isnt good enough! 3 months! argghhhh and I am on a deadline!
HELP!
- Gypsy Gurl

I am writing another novel and I wrote ten pages in the last two days, and for some reason, whenever I sit down to write, I end up making excuses for why I SHOULDN’T write. I know what I want to do with the story, but I just can’t write it down for some reason. Any help???
- Maddy R

In Ferlinghetti’s poem “Reading Apollinaire by the Rouge River,” at the end it reads:
“As I sit reading a French poet
whose most famous poem is about
the river that runs through the city
taking time & life & lovers with it
and none returning
none returning”
I have read Apollinaire and tried researching this but still cannot figure out which poem he is referring to. Does anyone know?
- littlerickaroo

I wrote a short story, and people that have read it say its really good. The problem is that it is the only fiction that I have written. Do fictional authors shop their short stories around or just wait until they have a collection of short stories and then publish them as a collection? What can I do with my story besides letting it sit in my desktop?
- CakeorDeath

Usually stories just flood through my head but for the past couple of months I sit there and stare at a blank page. Help.
- Nell

I need to finish my book by august and I still have 47 pages to go. I already have 353 done but I keep getting writer’s block. Only one month left; help!
I already have the outline complete. I just get so bored and easily distracted every time I sit down to write.
- <3Emm

Ever since I was young, i’ve been keen on writing. I used to write daily before I was a teenager, filling page after page of random stories and poems and other rubbish that I loved at the time.

Now that i’m sixteen, i’ve took my GCSEs and am now studying for my AS Levels and i’ve found myself, every time I sit down and try to write, my mind is empty. I feel like my skill and enthusiasm is gone.
I’ve got hundreds of tiny ideas in my head, which i’d love to explore further in a story, for example. But when I try and write it, it’s just not coming to me like it used to.

Is this writers block?
How can I get enthusiastic about writing again?

Thanks in advance.
- Ladybird.

I Have 6 book ideas and a movie script, and when I tell my family my ideas they get so excited, saying I should get started, but everytime I sit down to write I get overwhelmed and anxious. I need some structure. Do anyone out there no what I’m talking about.
- ava