Liberate Your Writing
What are you trying to say?
Writing has two components:
Writing
Editing
Editing cannot happen without writing. Moreover, swapping the order to:
Editing
Writing
Slows writing to a crawl. Writing things, editing it minimally and releasing it to the world creates an abundance of feedback and ideas.
Many anguish in the inversion instead.
How to Write
Pardon the cliche but let it flow. Try not to rewrite anything on the first draft.
Re-reading hip shot writing with negative self-talk is often surprisingly met with “huh, this isn’t so bad”.
“Morning Pages” a stream of consciousness writing technique from the popular creative program “The Artist’s Way” helps here.
How to Edit
Read it aloud. This becomes a lot less embarrassing in public over time. Increased volume highlights clunkiness and typos better.
For newsletters, sending it to yourself first and imagining what a reader might experience is valuable.
Removing unnecessary words and re-organizing for clarity is crucial.
All of this and more will be revealed though.
Just start.
100% Typo Guarantee - This message was written without any AI assistance. All yours imperfectly truly. Therefore, I can virtually guarantee there’s a double word or misspelling in there somewhere. Happy Hunting!