Improve anything you write with one simple technique.
Decide your words well.
That, my friend, is the simple technique to improve anything you write.
Whether it’s an email, business letter, newsletter, resumé, job application, post, article, essay, or book.
However, for the simple technique to work, you must first accept that:
- Everything you have a word for is a word.
- Therefore, everything you know is a word.
After that, of course, the simple technique demands knowing your words.
If you don’t, you cannot decide your words well, and if you cannot decide your words well, others will decide them for you.
Be careful though, if you let them, you can’t win with a losing hand.
In other words, you lose. Meaning you will continue to suffer if you have an emotional response to everything that is said to you, because if words control you means everyone else can control you.
So when you do know and decide your words well, you may want to use these additional writing techniques, too…
- Be sure to use vivid words rather than stale ones.
- Use the present tense rather than the past or future (the readers will always read in the present).
- Prioritise clear over clever.
- Write short sentences.
- Keep it simple, use the Hemingway app.
- To make it easy on the readers eyes, leave white spaces between your paragraphs.
- Always wear the reader’s glasses and they will prefer to read your message and understand it better.
- Being interested is how you become interesting.
- If your words don’t fascinate you, is it fair to expect a different response from when they’re read?
“If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein
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