The Missing Puzzle Piece

It is when you know the answer to the question yet you cannot find the right words to say it. It is when you already know what you are looking for but you do not know where to find it. It is when you are already eager to complete the puzzle; however, one piece to the puzzle is missing. It is that giddy, wobbly feeling when you truly want to solve a baffling riddle. That is the feeling you get in writing. Writing is a tedious problem-solving, puzzle-disentangling, riddle-answering task.

Writing is similar to solving a problem because writing is basically described as expository. You are explaining something when you write. What you are explaining might be a process, a method or even a story. It is the nature of writing to be explicative, descriptive and interpretative.

Comparable to a pirate’s quest for treasures, writing intends to find answers to difficult and puzzling queries. The process in finding the answer though is not a walk in the park; it requires patience and determination to be able to get out of the park. There are certain steps to follow to be able to write systematically and efficiently.

When solving a complex problem in Algebra, you initially find the given components in the problem. With the given factors, you create or derive an equation to solve and calculate the problem. That is also the first step in writing – generating ideas to develop the topic. There are several ways in generating ideas. Most people use free writing in framing the topic. This is the most comfortable way in developing the topic since the writer is letting all her knowledge on the topic flow into the paper. Another method is through clustering ideas. You group the subtopics and other related ideas in a manner that would make the topic easier to understand.

Research is essential in the writing process to further expound on the topic. Providing arguments and counterarguments are surefire ways of making the readers believe in what the writer is saying. Moreover, questioning is also effective since you are not limiting your ideas inside a box. If more questions are asked, interest in the topic is increased.

As Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” The way to solving the problem is as excruciating as it may seem but the reward is priceless. There is nothing more fulfilling than being able to impart efficiently your knowledge on a topic to your readers. When you reach that point in writing, you finally find that missing piece you have long been searching for and finally, complete the puzzle.