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CD- I do have the original outline, which has been helpful, but of course the client doesn't want the order to stay the same so I have to move everything around each time Live- I hadn't heard of cubing before, and would not have thought of arguing for...but I can see where that could be an interesting dimension to bring in.

Quote: Originally Posted by Y.L. Prinzel The problems are the other areas, "What is health insurance?" "How does health insurance mitigate financial risk?", etc. Not sure about your exact situation. But some ideas as to those two questions. "What is health insurance?" - Maybe change topic quickly after brief intro to "where to obtain health insurance and/or information about it in...

One thing that I have found that sometimes helps me is to change what I am writing with and in. Instead of composing at your computer, maybe sit in an easy chair with a pad and a pink marker. I know logically, it sounds a bit ridiculous but I have found both tricks to sometimes work well for me. A change of scenery has worked for me as well. One particularly difficult piece came together while sitting in my car waiting for my mother to finish...

Another suggestion. If you're dealing with the same subject but are writing different articles for different states, maybe you could just come up with a single outline for all of them. Then maybe you could let the outline be your guide instead of the last article you've written. Let yourself write partially blind if I can put it that way.

My English professor told once about cubing approach and it does help me many a times. Take 6 ways to address about health insurance. Describe about health insurance in a given state. Compare it with the best. Associate it. Analyze. Apply. and then you can argue for and/or against it.