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The Writing Process
with
Coach Fortune🔮

1. Brainstorm and Pre-Write
   This step includes among others– researching, thinking, discussing and taking notes to find topics and subtopics. Then, put your ideas on paper by free writing or making a list.
2. . Organize Ideas
   Arrange your ideas to show the relationship between them. Take the free writing or the list from step 1 and group similar ideas together, or create an idea map or outline.
3. 3. Write
   Referring to your work from steps 1 and 2, write a draft. You may see it easier to write out of order, like starting off with the body and end with an introduction.
4. 4. Revise
   Address (big picture) concerns like– clarity development and organization, (compare your work from step 2 and make decisions) then update your draft.
5. 5. Edit
   Address the ‘details’ like – spelling, grammar and punctuation. Update your draft in a good way. Finalize your writing or revisit the steps to ensure everything is inline.

Taken from: Provisional Pen Writing Services

Fortune munsaka Munsaka is a published and award winning author. Editor and Business and Publishing Coach.

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“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress . . .”
—Nick Hornby

Make it personal.
Even if you’re writing the most off-the-wall sci-fi space opera, there still needs to be genuine emotion from you, the author, to make readers connect with it.

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
―Robert Frost

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you.”
―Neil Gaiman

Just keep going.
It’s going to be hard! Know that going into it, and don’t give up when you hit some bumps.

“Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”
―Charles Bukowski

“Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.”
—Margaret Atwood

Write what you want to read.
Think about the kinds of books you want to read—whether they exist yet or not—and get started!

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
―Meg Cabot

“I wrote the first book because I wanted to read it. I thought that kind of book, with that subject—those most vulnerable, most undescribed, not taken seriously little black girls—had never existed seriously in literature. No one had ever written about them except as props. Since I couldn’t find a book that did that, I thought, ‘Well, I’ll write it and then I’ll read it.’”
—Toni Morrison