Writing FAST - Jeff Bollow 2012

Chunking pays off
Ride your wave to the end
Apply

During the Focus phase of the FAST System, you applied the technique of “chunking.” You took the idea in your mind, and you broke it down into little manageable chunks.

And you stretched those chunks over a number of pages. Maybe each chunk is five pages. Or maybe ten. Or whatever you can blast through in one sitting.

Chunking is for you, not your reader. Chunking exists for one reason only — to help you ride the wave.

By breaking your writing into chunks, you’ve got a simple way of getting from Point A to Point B.

The first chunk might go from page 1 to page 5. Now that you’ve got Talktation and the BIN, you can leap right in! Write as fast as you can to page 5, and you’re done.

Then jump into the next chunk. Page 5 to page 10. Write as fast as possible — dropping any stray ideas into the BIN. And then the next chunk.

And again with the next. And the next. And the next.

As you get better at Talktation, the wave gets easier to ride. The BIN keeps you from falling off. And the chunks keep you from getting tumbled.

Because the chunks are small and manageable, you stay focused on the target.

And you don’t have to think about anything except filling the pages with words.