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Readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images. So trying to make the reader âseeâ is a good goal and being concrete has huge effects.
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Don't increase the complexity of your vocabulary just to give the impression of intelligence. This actually makes you look stupid.
Treat the reader as an equal. If youâre trying to impress, at best you will make the reader feel dumb. And nobody likes to feel dumb.
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Once you know something you assume others do too. Itâs human nature. And that leads to bad writing.
'The curse of knowledge' refers to the inability that we all have in imagining what itâs like not to know something that we do know.
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Tell the reader what your point is. And tell them early. People need a reference point so they can follow what youâre saying. Without it, theyâre lost.
Suspense isnât useful if people have no idea what youâre talking about and quit reading after the first paragraph.
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Anyone who wants to improve their writing needs to read a lot.
Becoming a writer requires reading examples of good prose, giving you something to aspire to and allowing you to become sensitive to the hundreds of things that go into a good sentence that couldnât possibly be spelled out one by one.
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Your words won't come out perfectly from the beginning. You have to spend time honing them.
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