Why Writers Need to Think Like Chefs

The pressure of producing a lot of content in a short time causes writers to succumb to the temptation to write long convoluted sentences, with an excessive number of clauses, running on in the attempt to provide as many strings of information as possible because they're all somehow connected and flow continuously in the writer's mind, who was told to write as they speak - and besides, it seems to sound kinda smart.

𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁?

By the time you get to the end of a sentence like that, you've forgotten the beginning.

It's like trying to gobble down a five-course meal all at once. You wouldn't taste any of the individual dishes. You won't even know what you ate.

But when you're served small portions in a logical order, it becomes a different experience. You get to enjoy every bite of an overall satisfying feast.

Easy to grasp, what that means for the writer, right? But there's more to it.

Serving this delicious meal is only part of the job.

The order in which you serve it has nothing to do with the order or the manner in which you cook it.

Same with writing.

A five-star writer plans the content for the reader, with the reader in mind.

How her brain cooks it, is really nobody’s business.

To serve it, she must first arrange it in digestible portions of eatable bites.

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