: I've heard this as a classic guide for reporters. A news story should answer all these questions. I've never heard of someone drawing diagrams of it or building some big system out of it,

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I've heard this as a classic guide for reporters. A news story should answer all these questions.

I've never heard of someone drawing diagrams of it or building some big system out of it, but I don't doubt that someone would.

Personally, I don't consciously think in these terms. But it certainly wouldn't hurt to analyze your writing from this perspective. If you proof-read a section of a story you've written looking for answers to these questions, and realize that you never said who was doing something, like maybe you had in mind that Fred did this but on re-reading your story you realize that you never said, this is certainly a problem that should be fixed. In some cases an omission may not matter. Whether event X happens before or after event Y may be crucially important to the plot ... or not. Etc.

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