Think of a tapestry with waving vertical stripes from top to bottom. Red, blue and yellow stripes individually wave right or left blending with other colors creating new color patterns. Follow with your eyes down the length of the tapestry. See the twists and turns the colors make and what beautiful color the entwining produces. Think of this blending as trains of thought in a story. As a writer writes a story, characters intertwine through the pages with conversations, actions and emotions.
Imagine your writing is a tapestry- each thread of thought flowing through pages of words. Words you chose to color your story with details and emotion of your choice. What story line is the color red? What does the color blue tell the reader? When yellow mixes with the blue story line, it becomes green changing the dynamics of that section. What does green tell the reader?
When writing a story or book, make sure your threads run through your tapestry unbroken, giving strong content to support characters and storyline from beginning to end. Form sentences with words to color your story with appropriate description as an artist mixes yellow and red to make shades of orange for a section of a picture.
Keep in mind, as your writing gets longer, that each sub-subject is as important as a longer ongoing- subject. Each line of thought has a beginning, middle and end. This is the simple outline for you to follow and check your work for credibility.
One way to ensure you have a beginning, middle and end is to make an outline for the book or story. Then, outline each character, scene and setting on a separate piece of paper to see if each component reflects everything you want to express. For each thread, you will create a list of questions to guide you in writing the thread. Did you tell all about your character- description, demeanor, or past experiences? Did you complete details of an event? And on, and on... checking your work to tighten and clarify. Ask the questions through your editing process. You won't leave any loose ends.
Check each thread of your work:
1. Beginning, Middle and End
2. Ask the usual questions -Who, what, where, when why, and how.
3. Finish each thread with a knot-a conclusion
Complete the whole picture from beginning to end. Continue weaving threads through your writing tapestry until you have answered all the questions you chose to answer in that line of thought. Tie a knot in your thread by writing a conclusion.
Tying that knot proves fulfilling. Your completed work will reflect your intentions and provide great satisfaction of a job well done. Your readers will be impressed when your goal is complete.
It helps to think of writing as art each time a writer puts thought into words on paper. Approaching a blank page with that in mind brings out the artist from within the writer. Any writing will then, reflect the caring, skilled artist a writer aspires to be.
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