Today’s tip from Bob Mayer’s The Novel Writer’s Toolkit is about more pre-work before you start to write your story. He proposes answering six questions before you write:

  1. What do I want to write about?
  2. What do I want to say about it?
  3. Why do I want to say it?
  4. Why should anybody else care?
  5. What can I do to make them care?
  6. What do I want readers to do, think, or see?

The first three questions focus on the writer and are usually easy to answer. The last three questions focus on the reader and can be harder to answer. But if you’re writing with the intent to sell your writing, you need to consider the reader. You want the reader pulled into your story, so engaged that they can’t put it down. The best (and easiest) time to plan the reader’s reaction is before you start writing.

Do you think about your reader before you write?

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