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Revision as Re-envisioning
In a recent post, Write To Done’s Leo Babuta (of Zen Habits fame) discussed revision as primarily a process of simplifying. The tips he provides in that post focus on removing the inessential and the verbose (the “cluttered” parts of … Continue reading
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3 New Ways To Get Started Drafting
One reason I love personal productivity/life development/organization blogs is that they provide some great tips for overcoming procrastination. The blogosphere is full of them, and they’re great fun to read. (Check out Leo Babuta’s Top 20 Motivation Hacks – An … Continue reading
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High Stakes Pronouns
As I’m sure you know, pronouns serve a key function in written communication. Because they have the power to stand in for nouns, they add remarkable ease and convenience to our everyday discourse. Just to review – in case it … Continue reading
On Removing “Weakifiers”
In The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss notes that in excess, almost anything takes on the characteristics of its opposite. When do possessions become clutter? When there are too many of them. I propose that we start applying this principle to … Continue reading
9 Ways To Improve Your Life By Improving Your Writing, Part 3
This is part three of a three-part series. 7. Writing Increases Your Attention Span In An – oh, look! A pigeon! Ahem. Seriously, that kind of thing hardly ever happens when writing, even though it seems to happen constantly when … Continue reading
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9 Ways To Improve Your Life By Improving Your Writing, Part 2
This post is part two of a three-part series. While yesterday’s entries focused on what writing well can do for you, you don’t need to be good at writing to benefit from it. Today’s three reasons explore ways even a … Continue reading
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9 Ways to Improve Your Life By Improving Your Writing
This is part one of a three-part series. As you know, Writing Power’s tagline is “write better, live better.” Correspondingly, I thought I would take a little time to provide evidence in support of that tagline. The following are some … Continue reading
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The Power of Writing
Welcome to Writing Power! The purpose of Writing Power is to improve your written communication skills with the ultimate aim of improving your life. I will not focus on writing in a vacuum, as an end in itself. Rather, I … Continue reading
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