In Facilitated Writing sessions I facilitate you as you develop ideas and write content. As a facilitator I use Clean Sequences, which are sets of questions that direct attention to where it needs to go.
If you prefer to self-facilitate, you can use the Clean Sequences in my ‘Dyter’ mobile app which is available in the Google PlayStore. For login details for the ‘Dyter’ app please contact richard.dyter@facilitatedwriting.com.
Like many other writers I would like to keep my readers reading. So I pay a lot of attention to editing my first draft so that my ideal reader receives value, such as an insight or a-ha moment, every few minutes of their precious time. Rob Fitzpatrick, the author of ‘Write Useful Books’, suggests a great metric for this constant drip of motivation: 'value-per-page'.
Value-per-page can be increased by cutting out fluff. Let's say you write something useful for your audience and then you cut the word count by half while leaving all the value. Now the audience will experience a value-per-page that's twice as high. That's a good win for them!
The level of value-per-page is strongly related to that all-important question: how to keep our readers reading. According to Rob Fitzpatrick, when the audience starts to disengage from content, low value-per-page is the problem “nine times out of ten”.
One of my editing tools is Clean Sequence 476204 which highlights issues with value-per-page. Don't worry about the 476204 code; what's important is the... [continue to read the full article]
The Clean Sequences that I use in ‘Facilitated Writing’ are built on the ideas of David Grove and innovations by Matthew Hudson. I also draw on ideas of Rob Fitzpatrick in his book ‘Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction’.