On Writing
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🤔💡Tired of writing no one wants to read?
(elevate your writing with these 8 key ingredients distilled from 6 books)
As Isaac Asimov said, ‘Writing is thinking through your fingers“. In a world overflowing with information, precise writing is your advantage.
💡Let’s explore how to make your words count.
★ Strive for simplicity
★ Keep it focused and consistent
★ hook ➠ tension ➠ solution
★ POP - personal, observational and playful
★ Use active voice
★ Be engaging…through storytelling, sharing experiences, address the reader
★ Verbs ignite your sentences, balance adverbs and adjectives
★ CRIBS - avoid confusing, repeating and boring parts and double down on interesting and surprising elements
extended with: Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. (Steven King - On writing)
Distilled from:
📚 On Writing Well by William Zinsser
📚 Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
📚 Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
📚 Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
📚 Writing That Works by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
📚 The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
Ready to master these strategies? Share your takeaway below! ⭐
Content preparation
- Strive for simplicity. Cut out words that don’t perform a function. Make long words short. Use easy-to-understand language and clear formatting
- Keep it focused and consistent
- hook your audience, followed by creating tension or conflict, closed by the solution
- Make beginnings and endings count
- Be yourself - POP - personal, observational and playful
- Use active voice - write with punch and dynamism
- Be engaging…through storytelling, sharing experiences, address the reader
- Verbs power your sentence, most adverbs waste space, adjectives often too
- CRIBS - avoid confusing, repeating and boring parts and double down on interesting and surprising elements
- Routine means discipline and discipline means success
- Lean into the process of writing - enjoy it
LinkedIn instructions
- trim fluff and use straightforward language to make your point.
- Maintaining focus and consistency - align with your professional identity and goals
- Start with a compelling question, a surprising fact, or a relatable challenge. Then introduce tension or conflict and relate it to challenges before offering solutions or insights
- Authenticity resonates. Writing in a personal, observational, and playful manner can help you stand out. Share my unique perspectives and experiences.
- Use Active voice
- Where appropriate directly address readers or ask questions to foster a sense of community and interaction, encouraging comments and shares.
- Choose powerful verbs to make your sentences pop and keep your reader’s attention.
- Use clear, specific claims and data to support your points
- Avoid confusing, repeating, and boring content. Instead, focus on making your LinkedIn posts interesting and surprising
Posted on LINKEDIN on 2024-02-25_Sun
Linking
- [[The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online – Write of Passage]]
- [[Thinking about Essays]]
- My personal writing style
- Experience Emotional Writing
- [[LinkedIn writing tips collection]]
- 5 keys to readability
