Thread by @santhoshexpress

26 truths that will make you 26x better writer:

🧵#writing #writer

👉 Audience: All writing is crap without them. Never be too busy to remember them.

👉 Bad writing: It makes readers wonder why it was written.

👉 Coughing: The tendency to write a weak start. "It may be recalled.."

👉 Deadline: No writing ever gets done without a strict one.

👉 English teacher: She is long gone. Now it's okay to have mistakes in your first draft.

👉 Fun: If you don't have it, your readers also won't.

👉 Getting started: It's so bloody difficult.

👉 Heartsink writer: Writers who think they know better than their editors.

👉 Ideas: Like free advice, everyone has it. Those who get them done are really few.

👉 Jokes: Don't include if your friends don't find them funny.

👉 KISS: The best writing advice ever. Keep It Short and Simple.

👉 Law of late literals: You will discover at least one mistake after you have mailed it.

👉 Myths: There are many about good writing.

👉 Names: World will notice you if you do a mistake with them.

👉 Openings: It should touch an emotion to hook.

👉 Perfection: It means the thing is dead.

👉 Quiet: The space in us from where all creativity happens.

👉 Reading: The ONLY way to learn writing.

👉 Sentence: A good one says who did what.

👉 Truth: You can't write anything else truthfully.

👉 Uncommon words: Writers with common sense don't use them.

👉 Verbs: The life force of any writing. Bring them early in the sentence.

👉 Writer's block: A romantic excuse for failing to plan and to procrastinate.

👉 X....... : Leave it blank when you have nothing good to say. (I also can't find a word starting with X for this series.)

👉 You: The best hook for any audience.

👉 Zappiest: How you feel if you exhaust yourself creating a good writing.

Credits: Much of this post was inspired by 'a-z of Medical Writing' by Tim Albert. It's a lovely book.

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