NLP Modelling Strategy To Uplift Your Writing Skills

Writing is one of the oldest ways to spread wisdom. It is a great medium to share knowledge, experience, thoughts, internal dialogues, learning, and aspirations with the world. There are around 6200 thoughts per day on average, as per research, and what better way to bring these thoughts and intellectual ideas to life than to write them down.

However, for many, it is not an easy task. Limiting beliefs, writing challenges, or other factors stop a person from taking pen to paper. Many people also get stuck in 'where to start and what is an excellent process to produce impressive write-ups.

We partnered with a seasoned writing professional and expert, Farjad Nabi, to gain insight into his successful writing strategy. Here is guideline form the keystones to creating impressive literature work.

The writing journey can be divided into four parts. It starts with preparation. The primary question here is what the topic of your interest is. The answer to that question creates focus as you start gathering more information around your chosen topic. Interestingly, when you focus on a specific topic, you get hold of information about it from everywhere, even from the sources you least expected.

The element of fear may kick in as you start your writing journey. This challenge can be easily overcome by dividing the bigger goal of completing the project into smaller steps that you can take one by one. Celebrating small victories and milestone accomplishments provide you the courage to move ahead.

The key activity is to gather all this information and data in one place, which we can call "a data container." This data container is a mind dump that serves two purposes. First, it collects all ideas around the subject. Secondly, it input all the research files or references into it. Ensure that you note down the annotations about particular research early on to remember why a specific reference resource is essential to your writing.

Data containers or mind dumps can be a folder on a laptop or a section in a notebook. You can choose how you arrange the data within it. Just make sure that it has all the relevant remarks and comments so that, if you revisit it, you may remember the purpose of each piece of information. Put in as much relevant data as you can in your mind dump. You can delete data later on, but not having enough data would cause you to loop back to the start of the process, and this loopback sometimes becomes the reason that makes you lose interest.

The second part of the writing journey is to write the draft. The first draft you write is a gut and heart draft written by arranging the data in the mind dump. It is like an all-in-hand poker, where you put- in whatever you have on the topic. Once it's done, you step back to see the bigger picture of who the audience is, what the plot is, and how the information is relevant to the audience. Now, you need to use your mind to flow as per the audience and writing requirements.

Write-up has three parts: beginning, middle, and end. Primarily, the beginning and the end are defined clearly, and the middle is the actual effort. Focusing on each part and giving it due diligence can make the write-up stand out.

The process of free-flow writing for the draft begins with an anchor. An anchor is a trigger for a particular response. Our expert plays his song list when he starts writing, enabling him to get in the mood for writing. Then he looks up the common themes in the mind dump and writes them on paper. If he gets stuck somewhere during the scripting, he walks around to speed up the thinking process. Once the free-flow writing is done and he has the first draft, he takes a printout and reads it aloud. Reading aloud gives a clear idea of the flow of the write-up.

When the draft is finalized, after review and minor tweaks, you successfully enter the writing journey's third part. The third part is the feedback part, where you get the relevant audience to review and provide feedback. The key here is to take input from the relevant reader audience, not from other writers. Another important aspect is that you ask for feedback only when the document is final from your end. Sometimes, the writers make the mistake of showing a 90% or 95% completed draft. The feedback then disrupts the overall writing flow. Therefore, don't show a write-up to anyone if it is not final.

Feedback from the audience gives more clarity. Ask the audience how they felt reading the article, what the strengths are, what areas can be improved, etc.

Ask questions around different elements such as the fun portions of the write-up, dull areas, the excitement-filled parts, etc. You may fine-tune the final draft in light of the received feedback.

You should be ready to make the sacrifice in the finalization of the draft. Sometimes you have to "kill your darling," i.e., you have to sacrifice your favorite line or heartily written part to keep the flow intact for the audience. Remember that the final goal is to produce a good write-up.

A writer's work is to put the thoughts in writing after carrying out background work. The background tips of our expert are as followed.

• Find an exciting feeling that you can associate with the writing to increase your enthusiasm. For our expert, writing is like going on an exciting trip.
• Talent is nothing if combined with discipline. As you have to show up for work every day, the same goes for writing. Spending some time every day shows discipline and a process-oriented approach towards writing.
• Belief in what you are writing has a vital role in the success of the project. Envisioning people enjoying your work when they read it makes it special to you. It would be best to visualize how your work is unique and special for the world.
• Assigning deadlines to the milestones is helpful to keep moving towards the final goal.
• There might be a little anxiety kicking in while you are doing the free flow writing or finalizing the draft. One can address this by taking breaks. You can check your phone or walk around after certain intervals to take breaks.
• You may come across some myths, such as having a specific frame of mind to start writing or writing in a noise-free environment only. When you show up to work and have established a writing process, the other things settle in when you start doing it.
• Good sleep is essential and helpful for good writing.
• Finalizing the draft in the mornings produces good results.

These backgrounds and related actions are the fourth and final part of the writing journey. The background actions are the catalyst to improve the writer's productivity and vary from one person to another. It is good that you review them as per your productive framework.

These actions can vary from person to person, and you may find your own to increase productivity.

The final advice from the expert is that the only way to learn is to fall forward. There are no mistakes or poor write-ups—only the learnings for a better and greater one ahead.

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