WRITING - WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT?

I wonder what people think about when they are writing. Obviously, the writer is thinking about something that is of interest to him/her. But what else?

For me, I picture someone reading what I have written. I picture the reader absorbing what I have said and I hope that my thoughts come through clearly. When I was writing my cookbook/healthy lifestyle book, I asked my daughter to act out an exercise that I was describing. It was funny to see her go through the motions, because what I THOUGHT I had said is apparently not what I actually said. It was a terrific learning experience in understanding how my brain (and yours) fills in the missing links because in your brain you can picture the outcome. However, the reader's brain may go in another direction. That is why you have to write, re-write, leave it for a while, re-write and so on until you are sure that your message is clear.

I decided to test my writing on my daughter again for the book. When she was asked to act out the steps in a recipe, I almost jumped up and down for joy when she actually carried out the instructions as I meant them to be performed. Whew! That was a relief.

As we say in our Ultimate Book Marketing Kit (www.inktreemarketing.com), you absolutely CANNOT edit your own writing. That tricky brain, again, will fill in the blanks when you don't even know it's happening.

Trust me, it's true. You MUST, MUST, MUST have your manuscript edited professionally or you will be misquoted all over the place. The results could be unpleasant indeed, because once you have published a work, it's out there for all to critique.

Make it good.

Denise