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Growing up, I was not a good writer. I really wasn’t! Some people today might read my stuff and ask why I put that last statement in the past tense, but…
Growing up, I was not a good writer. I really wasn’t! Some people today might read my stuff and ask why I put that last statement in the past tense, but…
Assuming that you’ve gotten this far, you’re already proving that I’m a better writer today than when I was a kid. (You would have stopped reading somewhere around the middle of the first sentence…from self-preservation. I really wasn’t very good.)
To this day, writing does not come easily for me, but I’ve done a lot during my adult life to improve. It’s definitely been a conscious effort, opposed to some people who were just “born to write.” So it’s probably easier for me to explain (to you) specific things I do that seem to work for me.
Here are a few writing tips that I’ve taught myself over my adult years.