Architect and carpenter roles

Once all ideas are on the page, and you step out of your madman phase, begin selecting large portions of text and arrange them in a lose order. This is the architect phase. The architect is unlikely to use everything that the madman put onto paper; it’s their job to wittle down raw material to the main ideas.

And then turn to carpenter work, which focuses on the sentence level. That is, the carpenter will construct sentences so that they are clearly and concisely written and flow logically from one to the next. The carpenter will also arrange and edit sentences to form cohesive paragraphs.

In The Essential Pencil writing method, we spend more time as carpenters than architects. We would love to teach you how through our business writing courses!