A Writer's Journey Map

A recently-completed, four-year study at a major U.S. research university concluded that PC Gaming and Platform Gaming were inherently more fun than writing.

Way to go, Mario!

A popular vacation destination for almost three decades, the Sea of MTV has almost everything a writer needs to avoid writing:

good music,
trashy videos, and
reality shows.

Writing well takes time.

A writer can get stuck in the Quicksand of Procrastination when he or she puts off dealing with a writing challenge longer than is prudent, such that there is insufficient time left for a writer to write well and finish on time.

Here, beautiful mermen and mermaids softly sing their soporific songs. Better to listen to Shakespeare's Macbeth, who says,

"Sleep, [. . .] the death of each day's life [. . .]."

—Act II, Scene ii.

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Beware! There are evil fairies in the Forest of Forgetfulness who lure writers into this woodland realm for inspiration or respite.

Many who fall under the fairies' spells lose all track of time and place, wandering blissfully in the damp shadows of tall trees.

Should writer's research their audience?
Planning a reader's journey

Writers can get stuck in the Pit of Plagiarism when they fail (for whatever reason) to give proper credit to another writer or person.

When you copy or cut-and-paste the work of someone else, give them proper credit through in-text citations and a list of citation sources (at the end of your text).

At the bottom of the Writer's Range lies the high rock spire at the end of Perilous Point.

Sailors gave this rocky crag its name after several despairing writers threw themselves from the top of the spire and landed on the decks of passing sailing ships. What a mess!

Captain Ahab had his white whale. The prophet Jonah had a whale that swallowed him whole, then spit him up on the beaches of Nineveh.

The yellow whale got his color from swallowing too many jaundiced writers.

This bay gets its name not because the ship that Charles Darwin made his most famous voyage on harbored here.

Instead, the bay got its name from when Sin-gin Finnegan's beagle, Snowflake, leapt off the poop deck the freighter "Daddy's Dream" and drown in its wake.

Wikipedia's contributors did a bang-up job on this entry (1-1- 2009).

Check it out, struggle with writing, and you'll begin understand why any Writer's Journey Map must have a Bridge of Sighs.

Finite and Infinite Writers

What is copy editing?
Backwards can be forwards
Make preparations to copy edit?

The Point

Commenting on a Peer's Text
Peer Response Questions
Peer Response versus Copy Editing
What does your reader perceive?

Global versus Local Revisions

Arranging the separate pieces
A preliminary arrangement draft
Methods of development

"" can be found by clicking on "Henslowe's Mountain" from the navigation map on a webpage that describes of specific challenge.

Wikipedia
Judging the Credibility (of recorded information)
Researching the target audience
Keeping track of your research
A Topic (to write about)

The Willful Reader

What's an audience forum?
Seeing "Unseen" Media

Choosing a viable target audience
Context, Motive, and Action
Keep the target audience small
Researching the target audience
A Topic (to write about) versus
A Writing Challenge

Draft/Sketch a record of your discoveries

Credits

Walk-Throughs

Choose your writing Challenge; change your world
Consequence and Credibility
A Darker Side of the Dark Wood
Three (General) Writing Scenarios