by
Donald L. Vasicek
http://michaelc.nextmp.net/wordpress
dvasicek@earthlink.net
Writing requires creative effort. Creative effort translated means that regardless of what you are writing, it must be put together in a fashion that grabs readers and keeps them reading. How is this accomplished?
Writing articles, blogs, personal letters, web site pages, books, poems, e-books, screenplays, radio scripts, video scripts, etc. requires a beginning, a middle, and an end without regard to linear or non-linear writing. A defining or main theme must be utilized to hold these elements of writing together. Like roots of a tree, a defining theme causes all elements of what one is writing to grow and blend together to be partial to the trunk and branches of a tree, as you write.
How is this accomplished?
The first step, and this is vital, is to use a pen and a piece of paper. It is advisable to sit down. Write down who caused you to come up with the idea about writing what you are about to write, what your situation was at the time, where you were, when was it, and why this particular writing idea surfaced. By writing down these answers with a pen and a piece of paper, it will cause the information that you impart to register in your subconscious mind. This, in turn, will give you the information you need to identify the main or defining theme for what you are about to write.
By following this approach to writing, creative effort will turn what one is writing into an effective piece of writing.