THere are certain writing basics that absolutely insure the success of your piece.
First you have to define what is success. What is your goal with the piece? Why are you writing it? What result do you want to get? What are you measuring that tells you the piece was a success?
You have to have something measurable so you can easily and quickly determine whether it was a good, successful piece.
I have harped on it in other pieces here because it is fundamental and so important to your success.
You have to a goal of what you want your writing piece to do before you write it. Then, you have to have some way to measure your results so you know if you accomplished your goal or not.
These 2 things are very critical. You learn to do them well and your writing becomes like shooting fish in a barrel.
It is a guaranteed score for you.
Whenever you can stack the deck in your favor in anything you do in life that is the sweet spot like mother's milk.
Things becoming easier. Life gets better. The air smells sweeter and the sky seems brighter.
You stop the need to struggle and fight against yourself.
Another basic step is to have a mini outline for your piece. In really big pieces or training type pieces I always use a simple outline along the lines of:
How to be a Captain
A. Leadership
B. Communication
C. Eye Patch
1. accessories
2. sword
D. Benefits of Captaindom
Something fairly simple like that to guide your thinking and focus your mind to stay on topic.
Also, it insures you cover all the topic areas that you intended to cover which is very important.
An introduction and conclusion are 2 important basics that "bookend" your writing piece. They should include the main topic of your piece in them stated in a slightly different way from each other.
So in summary, the basics of writing that you need to do are: having your goal in mind for the piece, some way to measure its effectiveness, an outline to guide your work, and the 2 edge pieces your summary and introduction.
We'll talk more again soon.
First you have to define what is success. What is your goal with the piece? Why are you writing it? What result do you want to get? What are you measuring that tells you the piece was a success?
You have to have something measurable so you can easily and quickly determine whether it was a good, successful piece.
I have harped on it in other pieces here because it is fundamental and so important to your success.
You have to a goal of what you want your writing piece to do before you write it. Then, you have to have some way to measure your results so you know if you accomplished your goal or not.
These 2 things are very critical. You learn to do them well and your writing becomes like shooting fish in a barrel.
It is a guaranteed score for you.
Whenever you can stack the deck in your favor in anything you do in life that is the sweet spot like mother's milk.
Things becoming easier. Life gets better. The air smells sweeter and the sky seems brighter.
You stop the need to struggle and fight against yourself.
Another basic step is to have a mini outline for your piece. In really big pieces or training type pieces I always use a simple outline along the lines of:
How to be a Captain
A. Leadership
B. Communication
C. Eye Patch
1. accessories
2. sword
D. Benefits of Captaindom
Something fairly simple like that to guide your thinking and focus your mind to stay on topic.
Also, it insures you cover all the topic areas that you intended to cover which is very important.
An introduction and conclusion are 2 important basics that "bookend" your writing piece. They should include the main topic of your piece in them stated in a slightly different way from each other.
So in summary, the basics of writing that you need to do are: having your goal in mind for the piece, some way to measure its effectiveness, an outline to guide your work, and the 2 edge pieces your summary and introduction.
We'll talk more again soon.
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