This document discusses various aspects of writing, storytelling, and editing processes. It covers defining writing and storytelling, elements that make for good stories and writing, and different organizational approaches for writing articles. The document also provides tips for developing leads, borrowing from fiction writers, polishing manuscripts through rewriting and editing, and making the whole piece coherent through title, introduction, body, and ending.

1. Presentation on:
Writing, storytelling and editing
processes. Bruce Garrison
Making coherent whole.
Hennessey
Presented by Stella Nabutola

3. Introduction
• According to omniglot, writing is a method of
representing language in visual or tactile form.
Writing systems use sets of symbols to
represent the sounds of speech, and may also
have symbols for such things as punctuation
and numerals.
• Storytelling is conveying of event in words,
sound and images.

4. • Editing processes can involve correction,
condensation, organization, and modifications
performed with an intention of producing a
correct, consistent, accurate and complete
work.

5. • Good writing takes a lot of time, strong
communication skills and motivation to use
them, also it needs creative energy and effort.
• Elements of good stories;
– Characters
– Use of dialogue
– Use of conflict and tension
– Strong organization using scene structure

6. • Good writing needs practice, discipline, daily
schedule, and it takes rewriting and it should be
done regularly.
• Good writing should be simple while retaining its
meaning; which means all complex words should be
translated for easy understanding. for example
medical words.

7. Elements of great feature writing
• Topic, theme, title, viewpoint, voice, moments
and endings.
• Ways of successful in writing
1. Writing style. Keep your prose simple and
straightforward. For the writer to keep thoughts
understood one has to consider:
a) Word selection
b) Be concise
c) Correct grammar.

8. 2. unity. It can also be called concept of consistency
that is to say tenses pronoun point of view and
mood are all indicator of unity. Never to mix tenses
or mood.
3. Tone. For the writer to get the tone that works
should consider the following:
a. place yourself in the background
b. Write in a way that comes naturally
c. Work from a suitable design

9. c. Use noun and verbs
d. Revise and rewrite.
• there are several concerns when the information
you have collected for your article.
• Different organizational approach vary depending
on the style writing and medium.

10. Good procedure for beginners
• Think of the main points of the article and make
these topics the roman numerals of your outline
• Next decide each of the main sections into
subsections
• If the article is going to be lengthy you might
want to go beyond alphabetic listing.
• One longer articles with sidebars and boxed
inserts as such many magazines use, you should
use separate outline for the sidebars.

11. • Old fashioned way of shuffling and reordering
of the information used by some writers
– List each important point on an individual card.
– Place cards with related information in the same
pile as you sort through the deck.
– Order the pile according to the sequence you
want the information to flow.
– Sort each individual pile to logically support the
general point the pile of cards represents

12. • Another approach is to use notebook
– Divide into sections and place relevant
information about each section into binder.
– Then you can move the material page by page,
section by section until you reach to a point you
want to use to write.
• Reporting is the key to quality writing. Gibbs
believes that the two elements work together for
success.

13. Developing the right lead
• Opening the paragraph of a magazine articles
should achieve three goals:
a. Tell the reader what the article is all about
b. Provide tone and mood of the article
c. Catch the readers attention and entice them.

14. Basic news paper leads used for
features
1. Summary lead
2. Salient feature lead
3. Anecdotal lead
4. Quotation
5. Delayed suspended interest lead
6. Question lead
Organizing the article
• Inverted pyramid
• Chronological order
• Essay. It standardized with introduction, middle and
conclusion.

15. Borrowing from fiction writers
• For elements approach:
I. Abstraction
II. Storytelling
III. Tension
IV. Characters
Polishing and editing manuscript
– Rewriting as self-editing process
– Rewriting is writing over and again until it’s right
– Self editing is making changes on the existing
manuscript.

16. Two way of looking at the manuscript
edition
I. You must consider what has to be done on
your own part to improve your manuscript
II. The handling that another person gives your
manuscript .
• Most important problem area to look for
dull, wooden phrasing, poor grammar,
spelling, punctuation, story organizational,
errors of fact or interpretation, holes in story
completeness, clutter and redundancy.

17. Other concerns in tuning the
manuscript
• Match publication’s stylebook
• Answer the unanswered questions
• Check for attributions strengths and
weaknesses
• Tightening watch for wordiness
• Be concerned with the ending

18. MAKING COHERENT WHOLE
• It concentrates with teamwork that keeps a
feature unified
• Title, subtitle, introduction, body and ending
must work together.
• Anecdote and quotes, examples, case studies,
figures, pictures charts etc can bring
illumination, resonance, relevance and
humanity.

19. • Before starting writing up, it will be good idea
to ask yourself one or two question;
– Are you sure that what you want to say is obvious
interest to the reader you have in mind?
– Are those readers like you?

20. Example of teamwork
• Many parts of the article
a) Titles
b) Introduction. It should comprise of
• vivid, surprises/shocking statements
• Anecdote
• Description
• Exposition
• Significant scene
• Significant quotes
• Literary allusion
• Celebrity peg
• Dramatic

21. The ending
• Types of endings
– Summing up
– Final quote
– Provocation to action
– Future prospective/possibilities
– Links
– appendages