Stacy L. Chin argues writers need strategy before storytelling. Define the problem, identify your customer, map how you'll commercialize it, assess technical risks, and explain why you're uniquely positioned to win. Get these five things right first, then write.
Before writing a single sentence, you should already know the problem you're solving, your targeted customer, your commercialization pathway, your technical risks, and why your solution is uniquely positioned to succeed. Because without that foundation, the writing just becomes a guesswork instead of a storytelling exercise. And the strongest applications feel cohesive because the strategy came first.
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