How can the writing process be made less difficult? Should it be made easy? If it becomes too easy there would be a big chance that the end product will be misleading if not actually false.
Communicate
Write your thought, write your innermost feeling and bring out what is in your mind. Just be natural and describe your research about the subject matter you want to talk about faithfully and state your conclusion logically. Your very first draft may omit some necessary points and describe the subject matter too soon. After writing more paragraphs and using paste and scissors to rearrange the thoughts and ideas - you now have a clear and logical manuscript.
It is understandable and it is alright and natural that you struggle with your own feelings, with fear that some person might find difficult to accept and with few words that at first had failed to express what it was meant to be. After much struggle you would experience the great joy of being able to deliver what you really wanted to say - and that is effective way to communicate.
Set a Time for Writing
Most writers agree that is it only one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration is all that is needed to write a story but writers needs long period of time when he is free from interruption to write well. Each writer needs to find out when is the best time he can write most creatively and set aside this time for writing. To some, they find it best to write during the dawn or wee hours when the house is so quiet and everyone is already sleeping. Others find it easier to write with loud background music during the day.
This specially set aside time should be used for analysis, outlining, thinking, revisions and writing the finale. The time in between can be used in filling up spaces or gaps in your story, to look up for more facts or check its veracity and to fix the rough section. If you are commuting in buses or trains, you can use this time to think through the next steps in your story or the best title to give, or maybe how it should end. That is why it is important for writers to always have a pen and paper handy.
A Good Place to Write
A typical writer wish to have a private comfortable room with desk and its lamp, and a chair; the books he needs, enough space to spread magazines and other resources. When you do not have such exclusive place, you can have a certain place at home or in your office to use for such purpose for a certain period of time every day or at your specified day and time. Be ready to have a brief case or a box that contains essential materials necessary to finish your story.
Your precious time at this place would be more valuable if you have the other basic materials every writer must have in addition to notes, clippings, pamphlets and other resource materials. You must have the coupon bonds, paper clips, eraser, fastener, puncher, scissor, dictionary, scotch tape, stapler and paste. If you have these entire ready and easily to be found then your thought would only be focused on your project and will not be distracted at all by just trying to find out where is that eraser.
Useful Tips
When working on a particular subject you should clip articles from whatever source for future reference. You should always write on the clippings - the date, page number and the source for you will never know when you would like to quote this later on. You will soon develop a method of filing ideas and resource materials. Ideas come to the mind of writers at times and places when it is impossible to develop them so it is important to jot them down. If you rely on your memory it may be lost too unless a brief record is made of it. Make final review and rewrite if necessary - an article is rejected because the writer sent the first rough draft of the material and not the finished product.
