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Stray thoughts

Stray thoughts

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Stray thoughts

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- Now, sometimes you find points sitting around in your writing that just don't seem to belong where they're sitting. We could call these stray thoughts. Ideas without, really, a proper home. Stray thoughts are inelegant. They happen usually because we haven't tied a point well enough to its narrative section and as a result readers may be baffled as to why you're telling them that thing that you're saying. I'll give you a quick made up example to help increase your awareness of this problem. Imagine you're writing something about a British airline called Frills Airways. Now, you're writing about a host of setbacks that Frills has been having recently. You've already divided the narrative up into various types of problems that they're having. Striking workers, a flood of customer-service complaints, that's another section. An advertising campaign that flopped, and technical problems with its planes too. So it's having this whole host of problems plus they're seeing profit delcine at…

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