Flush Out Your Ideas

We're now at the stage where it's time to to start putting complete thoughts, sentences, and paragraphs together. It's the actual writing stage. Up until now you've managed to flush out your key-points, determine the type of guide you're writing, and you even re-arranged your key ideas and concepts into a logical delivery format. Now that you're through all of that stuff, you can begin the process of actually writing out your thoughts and ideas in full.

Before that, however, it may make sense to go back and take a quick peak at the information you gleaned from the deconstruction phase of the DISTILL process.

What is your topic, who is your audience, and what are you hoping is the actual outcome you hope your readers will walk away with after reading your guide?

Through every single step of the writing process, and within every single section and page, return back to those three questions repeatedly. Constantly asking yourself along the way, with every additional content block, whether or not you're addressing those three (topic, audience, outcome) questions, and building up to the outcome you desire.


Here are a few step to help you along the way

  • Outline your pages and sections in point form before writing your content
  • Determine if you need to re-order your point form notes again.
  • Double check that the flow is logical from one point to another
  • Turn your point form notes into sentences, and then paragraphs
  • If you're struggling with certain sections, abandon them. You can re-add them later.

Now that you know the steps we take towards flushing out our content, you should probably witness our prolific approach to developing a page of content for our very own guide.

Don't worry, we would develop an entire guide here, just a single page.