Karthik is a science communicator at IISC, Bangalore. In a very elaborate session, he changed the way I approach writing. Here are the notes:

• Build a narrative.
• Don’t binge write; form a practice and do a little everyday.
• Stories form collective hypotheses.
• Neurological link between reading an action word and actually doing it (same parts of the brain get activated).
• ABT Framework: And (establish characters and context), But (introduce conflict, the twist), Therefore (Conflict resolution).
• Arrangement of paragraphs: summarise each paragraph in one line and look at logical flow between those sentences.
• Paragraph structure: Transition, Topic Sentence, Expand, Point / Conclusion and focus on coherence.
• Sentence structure: identify subject, verb and relationships. What exactly are you talking about? Introduce familiar then new information.
• Reduce nominalization unless necessary.
• Use a clause to start a sentence.
• Flow is optimal.