WIRMI is the one I would put at the top of this list. I read manuscripts as a journal editor, and the drafts that stall usually stall because the writer has not decided what the argument is yet, so every paragraph hedges against a claim that was never actually made - "what I really mean is" forces that decision on page one instead of in round three of peer review. The addition I would make for medical writers specifically is to start with the Methods section, because it is the one part you can write without having to be right about anything yet. You did the thing, and you describe the thing. The introduction stops being frightening once there are already 800 words in the file.
You are on point. When you know what you want to deliver, you already start to deliver in the very beginning( sometimes, the beginning is the end of the writing but you know where to put all the mess in less choatic state for your readers).
WIRMI is the one I would put at the top of this list. I read manuscripts as a journal editor, and the drafts that stall usually stall because the writer has not decided what the argument is yet, so every paragraph hedges against a claim that was never actually made - "what I really mean is" forces that decision on page one instead of in round three of peer review. The addition I would make for medical writers specifically is to start with the Methods section, because it is the one part you can write without having to be right about anything yet. You did the thing, and you describe the thing. The introduction stops being frightening once there are already 800 words in the file.
You are on point. When you know what you want to deliver, you already start to deliver in the very beginning( sometimes, the beginning is the end of the writing but you know where to put all the mess in less choatic state for your readers).