How To Choose Writing Exercises
Writing every day is one way to hone your writing chops. If you want to see huge gains in your skills, though, deliberate practice by way of writing exercises is the best avenue to take.
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Writing every day is one way to hone your writing chops. If you want to see huge gains in your skills, though, deliberate practice by way of writing exercises is the best avenue to take.
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Ever heard of readability formulas? If you haven’t, they’re basically computational tools that you can use to measure how difficult it is to read a specific written material.
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The best writers tend to have a very defined voice — you notice it immediately when you read stuff they’ve written. It makes their work easily identifiable even without having to look up the author of the piece.
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During first drafts, we tend to err on the side of excess — too many words, too much explanation and just plain a lot of unnecessary things going on. That’s why spending time cleaning up your work during revision is such an important step.
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Nobody likes redundancy in writing. Aside from being an utter a waste of time, redundant writing comes across as very sloppy, causing readers to tune out instead of pay more attention.