Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you're bad at writing and don't like to do it, you'll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated. -Paul Graham
10 WAYS TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER
1. Start With A Story
Begin your piece with a fable that illustrates your point and shows the reader what it is that you're talking about. Develop a scene and a scenario where people can nod their heads and say, yes, I see, that happens to me. I can picture myself doing that.
Despite how useful facts and lists are, stories are what resonate. We're pulled into the grip of a helicopter crash, and most of us can't look away when we see bright lights or hear loud noises. It's the pull of the story and the unknown that captures our attention. are memorable, and we can tell and re-tell them; they are, in fact, how we wire information into our brains.
Great writers on the web today hook readers in with stories, creating fictional (or narrative non-fictional) scenes with detail, specificity, and color.
2. Start with a Question
Much of life, and blog posts, are paradoxes, not answers. Starting with the answer first can be terrifying (and worse, inaccurate or incomplete).
3. Play with the use of First, Second and Third Person Perspective
First person is filled with "I" statements-great when you know the author, or you have a relationship with the person doing the writing. Second person uses "you" all the time-and can be a wonderful tool for creating empathy and describing a scene that you want the reader to inhabit-but can become bossy quickly with excessive use. Third person focuses on the scene or the action from an anonymous observer within the room.
Most of the time, we don't actually care about the writer. Your reader wants to know exactly how the writing affects him or her-and whether or not the reading is going to matter to them specifically Right from the start, you should paint a picture of the person or scene and show the action happening.
While first-person can be a tremendous tool as a writer, many bloggers (myself included) are often far too liberal in writing our experiences. Luckily, there's a quick way to fix this: write the post you would normally write, and then edit selectively to remove the "I" from a couple of paragraphs.
4. Talk It Through
Start with the communication vehicle you're most comfortable with. Most people get stuck writing because they haven't done it enough. They haven't sat at the computer and made writing a habit, and each time they do eventually get to the screen, they agonize over each word choice and sentence until they've beaten the poor essay to death, 500 words and 2 bottles of wine later, declaring, "I'll never write again, no, not me!"
If you're stuck on writing, chat with a friend and use voice recorder, or stomp around your office or hallway and talk things out. Much of great conversation and thinking is done while moving-why should we sit and expect the great ideas to pour out of us once we've relegated our bodies to stillness? Start talking, start recording, and go for a walk. Many a mile I've walked with an earphone in my ear and a voice recorder on, pretending to talk to someone else while I'm actually just talking to myself.
5. Write the Outcome You Want by Beginning with the Ending
Start with the ending, and the desired action. Sometimes the posts I write are creative, lyrical, poetic, and exploratory-that's fine. Other times, I want something, and I want something specific. Perhaps it's a donation to or a sign-up to my latest . Each time, I think carefully and specifically about the person who will be reading the essay, and the end of the piece, and what action I want them to take.
Step one: write the desired outcome. Before writing your post, write the action or outcome that you want people to do. How do you want them to take action?
6. Write About Things You Know
Write about things that seem incredibly obvious to you (and that you're perhaps overlooking). Describe how you do things, and how you sort your day. Pay attention to the questions people ask you at conferences, in email, and during dinner conversations for clues to what people want to know. Surprisingly, people are incredibly different and what you do may be novel to someone else.
7. Be Incredibly Specific
Clichés and abstract thinking are painful to read and prevalent across every type of writing. The solution to clichés is to get incredibly specific-start detailing the scene and describe who is doing what, where you are, and what is happening. Examples are more powerful than anecdotes.
8. Mimic Your Favorite Writers
You don't have to reinvent the wheel. If you're stuck, use Evernote to copy and trace patterns that you like. I like to save out great essays and drafts from my favorite writers, print them, and then highlight them to study how people write effectively. Behind the words that you enjoy the most are patterns and clues to great writing.
9. Write Less and Link More
Find examples and point to them. It's perfectly okay to not reinvent the wheel – it can be equally valuable to curate great content or showcase your process of discovery if it's lead you to a great outcome or conclusion.
Writing isn't just a tool for communication – it's a tool for creative generation and unlocking what's within your mind. It's a tool for discovery, search, synthesis and re-wiring. Writing regularly is not just a means to create content, but is itself a tool to generate ideas and crystalize ideas. Whenever you can, use a notebook, use Evernote, google docs, or another system to capture your ideas and practice collecting (and imagining) ideas.
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