Imagening a Final Draft

                   Review the brief reminders below.
                You may be well on your way to a solid draft.

                You have probably grown your meaning and begun to specify it to yourself. Good for you. Your thoughtful efforts are giving you a good chance to complete some powerfully effective writing. 

                You have reached the point where at it is time to consider the steps to take to complete a great draft. Now can be the time to move forward toward publishing a darn good piece. 

                Calmly consider the foll0wing suggestions:

A: Now you are likely to have written that from which you can coax some true coherence. Great! From here you can complete this draft and begin the next one.

B: Take some time to see that our main meaning is clear to you.

C: Let yourself do some growing and cooking.

D: Sum up that which you have written into a genuine assertion central to what you have to say. Perfection is not necessary, but do remember that your assertion must assert that which can be quarreled with. Done? You may be more than half way to a fine finished work.

E: You can let yourself reconsider an outline or overall plan. It may not be necessary, but it could be a useful consideration.

                You are well on your way to submitting a meaningful piece of work to publish. You can be nearly ready to put your name to a good post or essay. Congratulations!

                Keep writing.

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Stuck

Write With RCS: Writers get stuck. Writers get unstuck.

If you have writers block right now try:

~ taking some time to consider what is going on with you. 

 

~ just resting a bit.

 

~ completing some business.   

 

~ thinking about the meaning of the words you are about to write.

Doing one or more of the following has helped a writer to move forward:

 

~ Look for  contrasting or conflicting elements in what you have written or are about to write. You can inter act with those elements when you find them. Just finding an example of one such element and naming it can help.

 

~ Try just babbling on in your writing. You may find yourself not being so nice or less agreeable than usual. You might even begin talking back to yourself. Try not to shut yourself down too fast. Don't stop yet. Let each voice make it's point.

 

~ When you get frustrated let their be movement. Again, let each and every voice have its say before you shut it down. No one is looking. Some writing may occur.

 

~ Try more meaning before words. Develop the meaning of the words you are using. Clarify those meanings. Fit word to meaning.

~ Keep writing. Keep writing even if you only write why your writing doesn't make sense. Keep writing for 10 or 20 minutes. Then try to get yourself to step back and look at what you have written with some perspective. You may discover that you have written verbless phrases or that nothing you write asserts anything. A few verbs and and a couple of assertions may improve your writing.

 

~ Sit back. Look at your writing and try to s what it adds up to. Going back and forth between immersing yourself in your writing and then sitting back to gain perspective - is writing. 

 

~ At times it is good to let yourself be a bit extreme, to be emotional. Let impulse have its day. Sometimes it seems that one has a cycle to go through before you get down to better writing. Such a time may well be the time to take to extremes for a while. Take it to the limit one more time. Latter you can be the ruthless editor with a sharp knife.

            

 Bye for now.

            Keep writing.

 Writers get stuck

Writers get unstuck

If you have writers block right now try:

~ taking some time to consider what is going on with you. 

~ just resting a bit.

~ completing some business.   

~ thinking about the meaning of the words you are about to write.

Doing one or more of the following has helped a writer to move forward:

~ Look for  contrasting or conflicting elements in what you have written or are about to write. You can inter act with those elements when you find them. Just finding an example of one such element and naming it can help.

~ Try just babbling on in your writing. You may find yourself not being so nice or less agreeable than usual. You might even begin talking back to yourself. Try not to shut yourself down too fast. Don't stop yet. Let each voice make it's point.

~ When you get frustrated let their be movement. Again, let each and every voice have its say before you shut it down. No one is looking. Some writing may occur.

~ Try more meaning before words. Develop the meaning of the words you are using. Clarify those meanings. Fit word to meaning.

~ Keep writing. Keep writing even if you only write why your writing doesn't make sense. Keep writing for 10 or 20 minutes. Then try to get yourself to step back and look at what you have written with some perspective. You may discover that you have written verbless phrases or that nothing you write asserts anything. A few verbs and and a couple of assertions may improve your writing.

~ Sit back. Look at your writing and try to s what it adds up to. Going back and forth between immersing yourself in your writing and then sitting back to gain perspective - is writing. 

~ At times it is good to let yourself be a bit extreme, to be emotional. Let impulse have its day. Sometimes it seems that one has a cycle to go through before you get down to better writing. Such a time may well be the time to take to extremes for a while. Take it to the limit one more time. Latter you can be the ruthless editor with a sharp knife.

            Keep writing.

            Bye for now.

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