8 Ways To become a better Writer- We're all Writers
You send emails
You send text messages
You write status updates on your social media
You send WhatsApp messages
You’re a writer, we are all writers now
Writing is a channel to amplify, communicate, and distribute your opinions, products, and ideas, the people whose ideas influence the world or their environment are those who can scale them through writing.
Jordan Petterson said, “ If you can write and speak well you’re absolutely dangerous’’ Yes dangerous to poverty, lack of sales, and success
WHY WRITING ONLINE IS GOOD FOR YOUR CAREER AND BUSINESS
Serendipity: Writing online increases the expression area of luck in your life. When you put your ideas out on the internet, robots, AI, and people may spread them in different directions and you never can predict where they may lead you in terms of opportunities, privileges, and success. This is because encoded in any writing online is a probability of virality.
Positioning: Writing online positions you as an expert in your field
Passive Income: I still make money from amazon on books I wrote years ago. Writing online gives you the opportunity to WRITE ONCE, AND EARN FOREVER
As an author of 7 books and over 170 articles in THE FOH LETTERS and three articles on FORBES.COM here are my top 8 tips to make you a better writer
ENVIRONMENT: Interior psychologists say that your environment affects your performance couple that thought with the fact that humans are very conditionable this point becomes priceless. I am currently sitting on my writing chair in my home, anytime I sit on this chair my body is triggered to either write in my journal or write something. The environment has conditioned my mind. Have a dedicated space in your home or office to do your writing. That can take the form of a chair, room, or corner in your house. This educates your soul to get into the writing mode whenever you’re there.
STRANGE CONVERSATIONS: Listen to strange conversations. If you’re a school teacher have conversations with lawyers, if you’re a content creator have conversations with nurses. This cross-pollination or exchange of ideas will deepen, sharpen, and enlarge your experience of the world out of which your writing vats will overflow with new concepts.
READ, READ, READ: The quality of your input will be mirrored in the craftmanship of your output. Constantly feed your mind great books, articles, Twitter threads, and blog posts they’ll expand your vocabulary, confirm your previously held beliefs, and open you up to new ideas and tools that’ll arm your pen, keyboard, or smartphone with fresh ideas to write about
LISTEN TO PODCASTS: In 2022 I spent 4,181 minutes listening to podcasts! I love the media genre of podcasts it gives me an unfair advantage. You can start by listening to mine here THE PAUL FOH PODCAST
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5. EDIT EDIT EDIT: I found out that my best articles are my most edited articles. When you write the first draft LEAVE IT! Go and play and come back after 6, 7, or 24 hours to edit your writing trust me the final work will be better because you’re looking at it with fresh eyes. “You cannot step into the same river twice”
READ IT OUT LOUD: This is a good one. By hearing the writing you’ll listen to the tone, pace, and interpretation of your writing.
TAKE NOTE: A good writer is a good assembler of ideas. If you take notes whenever you read or listen to podcasts you’ll have a war chest of ideas to utilize whenever you want to create new articles. I use NOTION to take digital notes. If you’re reading, listening to a podcast, or watching a youtube video and you find an idea write it down in your journal. The purpose of your brain is to receive ideas while the purpose of your journal is to capture the ideas.
WRITE FREQUENTLY: To get good at writing write frequently, you don’t get great by what you know you become great by what you do. When you write or put your writing out there you’ll get feedback and some of them will be good, bad, and nasty take it all in good faith and reinterpret it as a method for your constant improvement
I hope this was useful!
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Well said, I’ll definitely implement