Trees and Writings

A book is like a tree. A core idea acting as a trunk, from which sections branch out, and at the extremities, ideas as numerous as leaves. It’s up to the reader’s discretion to find the flowers the fruits.

Similarly, the essence of each corpus is that of a plant, with all sorts of shapes and sizes, but with common parts: roots, branches, and leaves.

This organic structure inspired diagrams we can use to shape our own writings, to discern and organize ideas at a granular level.

Let’s take cooking as a root idea, for example. Cooking is a vast knowledge tree, with branches like “ingredients”, “plate design”, or “ustensil”. A blogging cook should be able to identify each branch and write about each subsequent branches and leaves.

It’s a top-down approach to address each element of a niche topic.

If the cook doesn’t know what to write about, he just needs to uncover hidden leaves. 

New leaves always appear to the trained eye, for knowledge is a bottomless pit.