I rarely suffer from what writers complain about the most and that is: writers block. Oh, sure, if I must write on a subject that I am not familiar with, then a certain amount of trepidation and the occasional blankness will set in. Still, if I accept a project I do so believing that I know enough about the topic to produce a compelling piece. Writing isnt difficult for most accomplished writers, but you must get started. Here are some things that help get me going:
If I am stuck, I write some sort of outline. Okay, maybe not a formal outline but something containing a topic sentence; 2, 3, or 4 main points; followed by a conclusion. As you can read there are three parts to any article: an introduction, the body, and a conclusion. Sometimes certain parts of the article I have more to write about than others. For example, I may have my main points for the body, but I dont have the introductory part down just yet. No matter, I keep working on my outline until I get something solid.
Once I have all three pieces together, I start to write. Okay, I start to type as almost all of my writings are created from scratch via Microsoft Word. There was a time when I had to...