7 Focus on Process

Philip Loosemore

Serve your readers through your investment in the writing process. Plan your time. Write iteratively, looping through the process several times.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why your process matters to your readers
  • How the writing process works
  • How to write iteratively

 

The writing process is a bit like hosting a dinner. There’s far more involved than just grabbing whatever’s in the fridge and serving it.

  • The experience is social. You focus on someone else’s needs and preferences.
  • You plan and organize early in the process, and perhaps do some research to offer the right thing.
  • Once it’s underway, you have to see it through to the end.
  • Along the way, you make little adjustments and improvements.
  • The most important moment is when you present what you’ve made.
  • You learn from the process—insights you can use the next time around.
  • However small it may be, the experience reverberates outward. Connections form. Relationships shift.
  • The experience is ultimately about people.
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