ILLUSTRATIVE CLUES FOR CREATIVE WRITING: PART I.

                How to write a perfect article in a competition.
 If you are asked to write on your thinking or on your own topics.

LESSON I.

1.  (Getting started) think of what you know very well, events, timeouts, issues, just anything.

2. Title it. Think of the best title that can bring out the meaning or summary of it.

3. Start with an introduction, if it is a word, starts by define it.

Now give an example of it, talk about how it can been used before or what you think about it, just add something to finish it, read the sentences, if it is up to 7-10 lines, leave it.

Note: What you did here is an introduction, we need the body.

Body: we shall build the body of these article, in five paragraphs, remember here in the article body building, you want to talk more and more about the title or topic as above.

Now make another title for each paragraph, that's five titles in all, call them sub-titles.

Now, start developing each of these sub-titles, you can use different sheets, but the same pen, let each development have at least 7-10 lines sentence.

NOTE: the sub-titles are called topic sentences of the body and they are key and important.

Note: use the last sub-title's development as a summary or conclusion of the article.

Now lets take an example:

Wait….thinking….

Ok: let write about the similarities between prescription and quotation. I know it well, because am an engineer and use quotation while my friend is a doctor and uses prescription. Both words have just almost the same application but are used by different profession. Use your dictionary to look it up now. In the body of the article, I need 3 sub-titles to develop, okay lets make it 5 sub-titles and they will be:





1. Doctors use the prescription
2. Engineers use the word quotation
3. Bringing out the similarities in both words
4. How wrong it is to use wrong word in a  particular field or profession.
5 ... and putty anything my brain tells me or following my pen.

Now, before I start, I need an introduction and that will be like this:

To me, I do not see anything different in the English language word prescription and quotation as it refers to how they are been used in professional fields, going by definition, prescription is to tell somebody, by a doctor, to take a particular medicine or have a particular treatment, while quotation, is a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost.

Now, look at the introduction, is it too small or too long? Should we leave it or put more something? Okay let’s put more:

I just believed that if a doctor is meant to be an engineer, a female doctor who is now an engineer, she never known anything about engineering because she is converted as an example for this article, will use the word quotation for the usual word she knew - prescription.

Now, let join the intros to make it one. Here, introduction can be one paragraph, but it depends on the amount of words you want to write, if your aim is 1,000 words, then you have to add more paragraphs, you just have to play with words in a way that make sense. No! leave the intro at one paragraphs, but make it big not more than 20 sentence. If we combine the intros we shall have something like this:

“Introduction:”
To me, I do not see anything different in the English "word" prescription and quotation as it refers to how they are been used in professional fields, going by definition, prescription is to tell somebody, by a doctor, to take a particular medicine or have a particular treatment, while quotation, is a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost. I just believed that if a doctor is meant to be an engineer, a female doctor who is now an engineer, she never known anything about engineering because she is converted as an example for this article, will use the word quotation for the usual word she knew - prescription.

now, let's take the first sub-titles of the body and develop it.

DOCTORS USE THE WORD PRESCRIPTION

Note: we are taking each paragraph's sub-title as a whole article with the title as the sub-title

Let’s start:
DOCTORS USE THE WORD PRESCRIPTION
How:
when a patient goes to the hospital, because he/she is sick, the doctor who will check his/her body to ascertain the kind of illness he/she has, by conducting a test on the patient. After the patient has been diagnose of the proper problem with his health will now put down the appropriate medicines for the cure in a statement which consist and contains what  the drug is, the name of the drug, how it can be taken by the patient, the number of dose, and  time it can be taken. The order of  writing  These statement by a doctor is called prescription or the content of these statement in this order by a doctor is referred as prescription.

now take a look, should we add more?

Let's add more...Okay:

from what I know, doctor may decide to call this order of writing on a paper, any other name apart from its now-name: "prescription"

 Now, if you want more, just play with words.

Let’s take the second sub-title which is:
Engineers uses quotation
  Let’s go…
ENGINEERS USES QUOTATION
As it is contained in prescription so it is in quotation. When an engineer or a technician is given a technical work to do, he have to take down some certain measurements and materials needed for the job, based on the work to be done - the thing he knows how to do, on  a sheet of paper meant for the purpose. The content of the paper which is appropriate material for the job, the name of the materials that will be used for the job, the quantity needed, the rate of which one of the material can be purchased and the total amount of the total number of each material to be bought in the order of a statement and in all, he calls it quotation, when due to be submitted to the owner of the work.

Let’s add more…

Other contents in quotation can be how the work should be done and when to do it too.

Let’s take the third sub-title:

BRING OUT THE SIMILARITIES IN BOTH WORDS

NOTE: this sub-title is not good to be a title of a paragraph; it is somehow it does not look good, so we have to put it this way….okay….

Here, we shall just write, but we must bear in mind that we writing to bring out the similarities in both words

Let’s do it:
prescription and quotation has common thing that is contained in both of them. What: both have orderly written down of how a thing can be done, the doctor termed it treatment schedule and the engineers calls it work done schedule, both have time based on doing a thing, as treatment will be done based on a specified time and work will also be done at a given time, nurses know how to use the time allocation in a prescription while artisans can manage effectively the work on time. How and when the prescription/quotation content is achieved is a matter of who does it and why he/she does it. The doers know how to read the content well enough and interpret them to effective use.

Now, let take the final sub-title, and develop it, bearing in mind that it would be our conclusion to the writing.

Let's go… okay…
lets use the 4th sub-title as our conclusion…

Because of how he founding fathers of English language has organized name and things which they called register; I see it as the reason for using prescription in the medical profession and living quotation for engineers and technical artisans. Because these two different names, has become well known to both field, it would be wrong to use the wrong name when referring to the right thing. At this point I would conclude that let these names be used as they were since it explains to us the exact thing we need to know about what we know - in content.

Now, let join the paragraphs with the title and see what happens:

HOW IS PRESCRIPTION SIMILAR TO QUOTATION IN PROFESSIONS AND SPECIALIZATIONS?

To me, I do not see anything different in the English "word" prescription and quotation as it refers to how they are been used in professional fields, going by definition, prescription is to tell somebody, by a doctor, to take a particular medicine or have a particular treatment, while quotation, is a statement of how much money a particular piece of work will cost. I just believed that if a doctor is meant to be an engineer, a female doctor who is now an engineer, she never known anything about engineering because she is converted as an example for this article, will use the word quotation for the usual word she knew - prescription.
when a patient goes to the hospital, because he/she is sick, the doctor who will check his/her body to ascertain the kind of illness he/she has, by conducting a test on the patient. After the patient has been diagnose of the proper problem with his health will now put down the appropriate medicines for the cure in a statement which consist and contains what  the drug is, the name of the drug, how it can be taken by the patient, the number of dose, and  time it can be taken. The order of  writing  These statement by a doctor is called prescription or the content of these statement in this order by a doctor is referred as prescription.
As it is contained in prescription so it is in quotation. When an engineer or a technician is given a technical work to do, he have to take down some certain measurements and materials needed for the job, based on the work to be done - the thing he knows how to do, on  a sheet of paper meant for the purpose. The content of the paper which is appropriate material for the job, the name of the materials that will be used for the job, the quantity needed, the rate of which one of the material can be purchased and the total amount of the total number of each material to be bought in the order of a statement and in all, he calls it quotation, when due to be submitted to the owner of the work. Other contents in quotation can be how the work should be done and when to do it too.
prescription and quotation has common thing that is contained in both of them. What: both have orderly written down of how a thing can be done, the doctor termed it treatment schedule and the engineers calls it work done schedule, both have time based on doing a thing, as treatment will be done based on a specified time and work will also be done at a given time, nurses know how to use the time allocation in a prescription while artisans can manage effectively the work on time. How and when the prescription/quotation content is achieved is a matter of who does it and why he/she does it. The doers know how to read the content well enough and interpret them to effective use.
Because of how he founding fathers of English language has organized name and things which they called register; I see it as the reason for using prescription in the medical profession and living quotation for engineers and technical artisans. Because these two different names, has become well known to both field, it would be wrong to use the wrong name when referring to the right thing. At this point I would conclude that let these names be used as they were since it explains to us the exact thing we need to know about what we know - in content.
From what you see, it is now a complete article and the reader will not see how the sub-titles has made up the article. This is what you see before now. So that's how the food is been cooked.

ASSESSMENT !
Just write anything about what you know for the reason of practice and post it at "writewell" our Facebook practical and discussion page.

Note how everything we wrote on the paragraphs are linked to the title without deviating. This is  how writing should be, don’t bring anything that is not relevant.

ILLUSTRATIVE CLUES FOR CREATIVE WRITING: PART II.