Argumentative Penguin
1 min readJun 24, 2021

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I would say the same thing I say to young writers who want to write a film script or a full play. Write a short film or a one act play first. My ideas for articles (and for scripts) also come at me a million ideas per second and I am also often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff that announces itself in my brain.

With scripts, a lot of what presents itself is backstory. It's stuff that I need to know but the audience does not - that gets edited out. The same is probably happening with some of your articles. Not everything you think is likely to be worth including. So you can either invest heavily in editing (I've just outsourced this to my significant other)

Alternatively, and what I'd recommend to all relative newbies is to vomit a small article. What is the EXACT point you're trying to make, then write this down. Put an intro and a conclusion on and publish it. Rather than trying to work a large comprehensive 12 minute article together, try and do a precise 4 minute article.

Then when you've got this down and it feels like you've got a sense of structure - and I don't just mean beginning middle and end, I mean story structure, stake raises and other such things - then you can write two points. Grow the articles after you've developed the skill of structuring.

Use the vomit and clean up method; but use it precisely and concisely. Hope that helps :o)

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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