Steps for writing
by surajksingh · 27 things on Twos
- Start with your goal
- What are you trying to achieve?
- Reframe
- Put your reader into it
- Why does it matter to them?
- Seek out data and examples
- Personal experience builds connections
- Find other credible sources
- Organize
- Lists, how-to guide, client narrative
- Write to one person
- Put your reader in the story
- Help them recognize and relate to an issue
- Ugly first draft
- Write as if no one will ever read it
- Walk away
- Rewrite
- Swap places with your reader
- Give it a great title
- Have someone else edit
- Check readability
- Is it inviting and easy to scan?
- Short paragraphs
- Bold sub heads
- Number or bullet lists
- Publish
- Answer one more reader question: what now?