Audio Extra: My Favorite Writing Tips

A companion recording to "How I Write"

Photo by Joe Vasquez on Unsplash

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Going forward, you will receive a new audio recording from me every Thursday that expands on the topic of my Wednesday post.

This week’s topic is writing!

Yesterday, I shared my process for writing my weekly newsletter. In today’s recording, I share a few of my favorite writing tips that have helped me over the years.

If you want to skip ahead to a specific part of the recording, I discuss the following tips (timestamp in parentheses):

• How reading is the key to good writing (0:40)

• How to save quotes and anecdotes to your commonplace book (1:17)

• The importance of journaling (2:59)

• Thinking about reader personas (4:30)

• Why it’s okay to make mistakes (5:14)

• Why you shouldn’t get caught up worrying about performance metrics (5:52)

• The importance of writing at a 6th-grade level (6:45)