Selecting, generalizing and building that set of relationships into a piece of writing is the next step. But I'll leave that for later, because this process is the one I really wanted to show you. To be real honest, I think it is the very simplicity of the process that confuses us. I mean, almost everyone notices that Prof. Grump always takes his notes out, sets them on the lectern, then never looks at them during class. Exaggerate this to talk about a character taking out the same ratty set of notes that he first started teaching with over 20 years ago - edges weatherbeaten, ink fading, and unread since he first penned them.
Tech writing tends to be pretty honest and straight-forward about the patterns in use.
You usually expect your reader to supply their own motives for reading, so it may not be as important to tease the reader into reading. Fiction is sneakier - make the reader wonder, then hold them off a while, and then feed them an answer. So now what you need to practice is baiting the reader - hinting, bewildering, and the other arts of deception. More on that later, too, but here's a clue to one method - people like to complete patterns.