Arrive With Confidence

Your day has just begun and already you can feel the stress coiling, tightening around you.  You have to write. The job demands it. You hate it. You're are not a writer and feel that you never will be. So what next?  We are going to talk to ourselves. Yep, that's what I said...talk...out loud...to yourself. Welcome to "Lunchbox Learning."

Take a deep breath.  Realize that not only do you have to do this, but you can do this. Just as everything else in life goes, so goes writing-step by step.

Let's throw away for just a moment all the writing, grammar, and spelling rules and go from there. Think of what it is you have to write about.  Now jot it down. What are your opinions, thoughts about that subject? Jot them all down.  Now go back and organize all the thoughts, opinions in the order of what you think is most important. Jot them down in that order.

How would you introduce the topic if you were talking to someone about it? Jot it down.  Now go back to each point you made and say a little something about each point.  As you discuss each point, jot it down. How would you end this conversation? Jot it down.

There you have it.  All the rules: Topic, Introduction, Body and Conclusion...all right there in your head.  And you said you couldn't write...

In future 'how-to' journals we are going to write by following that natural flow, only I will lead you step by step while applying each rule and before you know it, your are a writing machine!

PS What is lunchbox learning?  Stick around and you'll find out. 

-Alia
                                                                              

Comments

[Monica B.]

I really like how you break down the concept of writing, alot of us have "writer's block because we try to think of doing all the steps at once. I'm looking forward to your other "how to" journal entries. Great website too!