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This Writer’s Journey
All You Need Is a Simple 5 Step Writing Plan to Be a Successful Writer.
Start At Step One. Then Move Through to Step Five.
The magic of this plan is in the execution. If you publish it, they will come.
The first step is important, but not without each succeeding step following close behind. The part that most of us forget is step five.
1. Write
In the beginning spend your time writing only and leave out the editing. Stay focused on the job of flowing what is in your mind onto the page one word, then the sentence comes. Couple of sentences and you get to the paragraph part of the journey. Getting to the next paragraph is now your next assignment. Turn the critic in your brain to off or mute for the time being, so all your thought juices come flowing out. Get it done in some amount of fixed time. Set the clock and keep writing until it is up. If at some point the time is up and you want to keep writing, then go with the flow.
2. Edit
During the editing, the critic can now be unmuted or turn on, but only in some moderation. This is the point where you review and revise what you have created. Move sentences around…
