In addition to revisions, pre-writing is one of the most important stages in the writing process. Unfortunately, many start [and some advanced] writers don't spend enough time on these activities, so writing is harder than they need.
Write all the activities required to prepare the first draft, starting with the first flash of the book's creativity, up to the full outline. The pre-writing process [at least I have already experienced] has several steps, each with some tricks to make the steps easier to pass.
So why not start typing after the first flash of an idea?
Only in the movie, the writer will do this. Remember Chevy Chase in from
Interesting farm from
[1988]? He has a good idea that he thinks is a novel. He sat on the typewriter, typed "Chapter 1" and stared at the typewriter, not knowing his first sentence. He did not complete his preparation. He finally figured out and made [in my opinion, based on the thickness of the manuscript and his wife's reaction] a trivial attempt at the novel, more of a novel than anything else.
The role of Chase eventually gave up the novel and became a sports writer. As a writer and teacher, I don't know if he gave up because he didn't understand the writing process, or whether he was simply not a novelist. As a sports writer, he looks very happy, so this movie does have a happy ending.
Writing is an important part of the writing process. Some of the benefits of pre-writing in the approximate order of the pre-writing process are as follows:
* Writing can be fun. Everything is possible at this time. You have a great book idea that is still vague, but there are great possibilities. Your thoughts can be arbitrary, even stupid. It's ok. Just keep brainstorming, play with creativity, collect resources and notes, and complete all the activities you need to complete the writing process.
The only restriction at this time [unless you impose more restrictions on yourself] is that you need or ask for the original vision of the book, but even this limitation is wrong. Your initial thoughts rarely match the finished product. I know this is hard to read, but that is my experience. Of course, my book is usually better and more complicated than the original idea. Visual ambiguity allows you to start researching this idea so you can create the book you want to write.
Whether it's content, organization or anything else, detours and strange ideas often bring gems to your book. At this point, your book can develop in many directions. Explore them until you find the one that feels right. "Ah, ha! This is what I want to write."
2. You can find out the true purpose of this book and play with other options until you find the right way for you and your readers. As a writer, what are you looking for? What benefits do you hope to bring to your readers? Make sure your books meet these goals.
3. You can find out more about your readers [a.k.a. target market, audience]. This exploration is part of your research on competition. You may know a lot about them because you are one of them and used to be a beginner. Or you may be targeting a different audience, in which case you have some work to do.
As you explore your readers, you can use other audiences you might want to address. The level of education or proficiency of the subject for different age groups. Do you want to write for beginners or practitioners in your field? Brainstorm all the possibilities of all these variables. Once you have completed your first book, you may find that alternatives can solve other book projects that you can solve. Oops, create a complete industry or franchise from your book ideas, aiming each book to a different audience.
You can plan this book to best meet the needs of your readers. You can use different organizational strategies to process the entire book and each chapter. You can consider the different features of the chapter. You can even play cover design.
5. You need to do a preliminary study to complete the first draft as much as possible, or at least the time you think you need.
If you are passionate about your theme [which is the most important], then it should be very happy to do more reading on this topic. Remember, in the end you have to write your own book, so don't get lost in research.
Give yourself a study time limit, then you will add research questions to the list of research questions, which will be completed during the revision period.
6. You can easily evaluate new ideas that flow into your mind [they will]. Does this idea fit your current vision of the book? If you use this idea, will this new idea completely change the book? Is this change good or bad? If so, where does this idea fit into your current book outline or vision?
7. At the end of the process, you will have a full outline of the book [if you use my process]. Through this syllabus, you will be able to see the entire project at a glance. Expand the outline on your desktop and check your creation. With this syllabus you will be able to detect:
- Ideological organization is inadequate,
- the gap between ideas and content,
- Do you have a book or two books?
- Whether the chapter will become a monster before you start drafting, you need to reduce the size immediately. [This result will also occur at the time of drafting, but you will deal with it later.]
8. Pre-writing allows you to write the first draft more easily because you know what you want to write in each writing session.
9. Writing will increase your confidence in yourself as a writer and your book ideas. You will be able to determine if the project has advantages and whether you can complete the project and actually write the book.
a warning
One caveat about pre-writing is that you can become so fascinated at this stage [it's really interesting], you didn't actually go beyond it to create the first draft, and then [oh, no] revision. Writers tend to spend too much time here and never leave.
Allow approximately 25% of projects to be pre-written. This is the time that suits me. If you have extensive research to do [you shouldn't do this, at least not in the early days of your career], then allow more time, such as 30% to 35% of the time. But then continue to write the first draft.
Writing is the first writing stage of any non-fiction work, which is an important stage because it makes it easier for you to spend the rest of the project than it is in the dark.
good luck.
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