Planning

Have you wished that you can plan your writing better? I try to plan or at least have a rough idea of where I am going with my writing. I know at the very least it will have a beginning, middle and an end. But sometimes I just like to see where an article wants to go.
I have been looking into what others do with there own planning and I have found some great sites that talk about planning and how it can help give us writers more writing time.
I am going to take a closer look at some of these websites to see if they will give me any ideas that I can use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/planning-your-writing The BBC have some great resources that are free to use.
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2013/04/16/revising-your-writing-revising-your-plan/ This is a really great piece of writing about revising your work and it fitted in nicely with the editing topic from a previous post.
http://www.wikihow.com/Plan-Your-Writing This is a great little article to read.

Reading Aloud

I have been thinking about editing and reading aloud since my last post.  I have made an effort to read my writing aloud.  It has made a real difference in the flow of my writing, if I stumble then others will too, and this could effect future work.
I just have to make sure that others in the house know that I am not just talking to myself and I am still working.

Editing

I have been reading a lot of articles about editing your own work and it made me think about the time I put into writing and researching an article and the time I put in editing. I am wondering if I should make an effort to increase this.
The steps I am going to take:-

• Read my articles out loud to check for grammatical errors
• Review the whole article and make sure that I am happy
• Think twice before I press the send button containing my latest creation