Do you find yourself wondering how to write answers that will satisfy your readers?Learning how to write answers is simple. Think about it like this: the five W's (who, what, when, where, why) are akin to the vowels and consonants used to spell out words. Without those vowels and consonants, the words we form on a daily basis to converse with one another would make no logical sense. The same holds true for the five W's. Without answering the age-old questions -- who, what, when, where, why -- readers lose their ability to be compelled by your writing. Click for Free Writer's Block Help E-Zine and Free E-Book Who are you trying to please with your writing if your reader isn't interested? What are you striving to accomplish? When will you find a way to incorporate answers to these questions? Where will you fit them into your writing? Why haven't you done it already? As you can see, I've asked you each of the five W's already about your writing. Now, you are about to embark on an adventure to realizing just how to write answers to questions your readers will most certainly ask. Not only will your readers ask these questions, but you should always be asking yourself these "five W's" in order to ensure you never have a puzzled reader again. Remember that it is okay for questions to beget more questions, as long as all of these questions come to some form of resolution before the end of the movie, book, poem, play, or other form of writing you are doing. Even though the five "W's" are important to have answered in the first moments, scenes, minutes, or pages of what you are writing, it is also important that readers sustain interest in your writing, and that you allow these five questions to provide you with the opportunity to write answers that will keep your book flowing, and keep readers guessing at what will happen next. The five "W's" merely provide the steppingstones for the writing that will grow from your answers to those questions. The rest of your writing will be filled with more depth and creativity once you have the clearest understanding of whom your characters are, what they will be doing, when and where they exist in time and place, and why it all has to happen the way you've planned it to occur. These questions form the basis of your writing technique. For a sneak peak at how the five W's coalesce into a writing script, check out our example of directed writing in the movie Mr. Holland's Opus. To return from the How to Write Answers Page to the
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