ISBN: 978-1-932436-10-5

16 Strategies for Jump-Starting Your Writing!

Getting started is often the hardest part of writing. Now emPOWERED Jump Starts for Writers gives you 16 time-tested strategies for breaking through that initial resistance. These strategies help to generate and organize ideas so you'll be ready to start writing. Included are keys to using the following:

• purpose statements
• reader information
• lists
• clusters
• T-bar & Venn diagrams
• the 5 W's & H chart
• freewriting
• time lines
• flowcharts
• the Inverted Pyramid
• the Pyramid of Benefits
• chat with colleagues
• index cards or sticky notes
• categories
• the problem/solution web
• the cause/effect organizer

This quick guide also includes mini-indexes with cross-references to our award-winning handbook, Write for Business, as well as to Writing Effective E-Mail.

Turn to this Job Aide whenever you're facing a new writing task. With emPOWERED Jump Starts for Writers, you'll never have to worry again about how to get started.