Use SCQA Before You Draft
Draft an SCQA skeleton before writing a work story.
Do the logic work before the design work. Why SCQA belongs before drafting SCQA turns a story into four testable claims: Situation, Complication, Question, Answer. The structure is valuable because it catches argument gaps early. A writer may spend hours improving wording while the real weakness is that the answer does not respond to the question. How it connects to story The Situation is the ordinary world. The Complication is the turn. The Question is the gap the audience now has to cross. The Answer is the new path. Duarte's sparkline lives inside the same movement: what is true now,…
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