Where do you even start to approach the mountain of information? Here is a Twitter thread to guide you through story planning, writing and structuring
Knowing how to approach a broad investigation or story can be a daunting prospect for all writers and journalists.
To help you sort through the mountain of information, journalist and non-fiction writer Jeff Maysh offers a guide to story processing for freelancers in a Twitter thread.
In the spirit of helping #freelancers: I’ll share some process stuff. I get asked a lot about structure and the actual writing bit. 1/7— Jeff Maysh 🥥 (@jeffmaysh) September 26, 2019
In the spirit of helping #freelancers: I’ll share some process stuff. I get asked a lot about structure and the actual writing bit. 1/7
Maysh said that he creates a Google Document separating each chapter by its individual word count in order to clearly see his daily deliverables.
"This helps me because I’m painting by numbers, so I never feel overwhelmed. I just know that when I wake up today, all I [have to] do is write a 200 word history of say, Lotteries in the middle ages. No problem," he wrote.
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