What happens after the story is planned?
After it's planned, a story begins to take form. This involves many different steps, including writing a skeleton, interviewing sources and laying out the draft.
Any good story begins with a strong outline. This is used to organize points and ideas, of course, but also find where interviews and research could be inserted into the story. After the outline is created, the Journalist begins to write the story. That being said, at this point the story is little more than the outline—it mostly serves to get the writer thinking, as well as to get a few words on the page, easing the workload later on.
After the outline, the Journalist makes sure that their sources listed in the TARS are still viable options. After that, he or she begins to write out interview questions. This is quickly followed by the writer requesting and, hopefully, receiving an interview. This interview is guided by the questions the Journalist wrote out earlier, but always stems off, allowing both parties to explore new and interesting ideas. This interview is then transcribed and integrated into the Journalist's story, shaping it to be more accurate and, in some cases, changing a large part of the story.
After a strong draft is written up, the Journalist begins to create a draft of the layout, as all good stories need a fitting design. Usually, pictures have not been taken nor has the story been fully written, so the design is usually full of placeholders—empty boxes meant to represent photographs as well as "Ipsem Lorem" text meant to fill space where the full story will be when it's fully completed.