Writing an article or book is work, particularly if you want to make a masterpiece of it. But the process involved is not so cumbersome that the steps cannot be outlined in a somewhat orderly and understandable manner. For clarity and practice, the steps showcased below with different arts and crafts could help anyone with the dream of being a bestselling author sometime in the future. And for the few already are, this probably would help in spotting the different elements that sold their book to their audience - for mastery. With the illustration of these nine arts and crafts in relation to writing, you can really appreciate what goes into a masterpiece in any genre of writing and, hopefully, make an attempt at one – from start to finish.

1. 9 Arts and Crafts that go into Writing
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Combining custom
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Change a shape’s look
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Change a shape’s look
by altering the colors
of the Fill and Line of
that shape. Double
click your shape to
access those options
in the tool bar at the
top.
50%
Change a shape’s look
by altering the colors
of the Fill and Line of
that shape. Double
click your shape to
access those options
in the tool bar at the
top.
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Cooking
Baking
Woodwork
Gymnastic
Music
Photography
Tailoring
Painting
Pottery
▪ Jot down ideas and points as they come either
in trickles or in jets.
▪ Get out the various key points as ingredients for
your intended piece.
▪ Cut out replicas and irrelevances in your draft.
▪ Merge complementary clauses and sentences.
▪ Build the scanty portions of your draft with
instances and support.
▪ Determine a writing style for your piece.
▪ Paint a good beginning and plot a good end
for your piece.
▪ Corroborate or expound on points to tie any
two adjoining parts of your piece.
▪ Draw contrast or conclusion or clarify points
to do the same.
▪ Use figures, measures and proportions to
rephrase dull expressions.
▪ Use facts, stats, humor and scenery to do
the same.
▪ Test read your piece to check words and
punctuations that do not aid the flow.
▪ Use pronouns, synonyms to replace words and
expressions repeated over and over.
▪ Add a clause or statement to clarify sentences that
could be questionable
▪ Check for incorrectly stated facts and figures
▪ Embellish with structure elements: subheads,
preambles, captions, endnotes etc.
▪ Connect these structure elements to connect with
the concept for the piece.
▪ Work a concept with the title, layout, writing style,
content type, related theme etc.
▪ Run the concept through the whole piece