So, you feel that your writing sucks and you want to improve it but you don’t know what you need to do.
Well, what you need to do is really simple.
Before going into that, let me ask you a question that will take your attention to one thing I want to emphasize. Think for a moment that you are a newbie artist and you want to improve the quality of your paintings. What would you do? That’s somewhat obvious, you would read books, take courses and attend seminars about painting, in short, you would master the theory. With that knowledge on your mind, you would take action on what you’ve learned and start to paint. The more you painted, the better you would become in time. However, you would know that wouldn’t be the case if you had given up when you saw that your first trial was not much better than the previous ones.
Like painting, as with all other skills you can think of, the only thing to get better on something is to do it again and again.
Now, you know what you need to do to improve your writing: To write more and more. This is what I tried to explain in my free ebook The Last Ebook You will Ever Need to Read.
If you haven’t written anything before, just go and push yourself to it. I know it will be really hard at first to compose even one short paragraph. Just don’t give up or delete it because it sounds bad. Believe me you will feel much more comfortable when you start writing the second paragraph. and when you are done with your first article, you will feel much better.
One last thing to keep in mind is, as like the artist example, in order to improve your writing you still need to read books, and listen to others who write well. However, you can not just expect to writte better just because you’ve read a lot and know what it takes to write better. You actually have to write and practice more to improve yourself. For me, reading weighs 20% and practicing the writing weighs 80%.
Now, it is time to grab a pencil and a paper and start writing.
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