By Erik Deckers – ProBlogService – @edeckers
1. a word is worth a thousand pictures
If I say baby, car, tree … you have an image in your mind.
When you say words pictues can be created.
2. Paint Pictures with Your Words
Metefores = commitment with more punch (use “are” ad opposed to “like”)
3. Know the Rules, Then Break Them
3a. A Lot of then Rules You Learned Are Wrong Anyway.
Some came from the structue of the Latin tradition … “What did you step in?”
4. Words Have Power Use Them Wisely
If you have to use a sware word, make sure you mean it.
5. Write the Hell Out of EVERYTHING
Make sure everything you write can be the best it can be, including tweets, titles, emails & posts.
“Focus” when writing (that word came up again)
6. “Write Drunk, Edit Sober” – Hemmingway
Be silly enough that you can let your guard down & write. Don’t edit yourself as you are writing a first draft. Then edit & don’t take out all the good goofy stuff.
Your writing will pop more.
You will start to write better.
7. Write Intentionally
Writing as you speak is better & people tend to like it.
There is something about
Questions?
Get better at using less words, but don’t loose meaning?
Read newspapers, see how they put most of the info up front. Inverted funnel.
Hemmengway – iceberg theory of writing, you dee the tip of the iceberg above the water … assume your readers are intellegent & will figure out stuff.
Most important advice to those who don’t consider themselves a writer & is starting & getting traction?
Make sure you love what you are writing about.
Keep doing it, at least 1 time a week, 3 times is better.
Rock it every time (quality over quantity)
[ #BCN11 series ]
