My 2022 goal is to empower you with language.
Can I ask you a question, ‘are you curious about whether learning to write well can make a difference to your career and to the way your life progresses’?
Like me, you might know someone who is intelligent, capable and creative, armed to the teeth with a good education and yet, is missing out on opportunities because their writing lets them down.
Perhaps 2022 can be a year to ‘never give up’. To discover whether doors open when you accept that writing is a skill that can be taught and learnt. And you become part of that process.
What might happen next?
Everyone’s story will be different.
You might become more at ease with letters so that you can do your job well, or secure more job interviews, or realise you can better prepare for meetings as you learn to more easily order your thoughts and convey them to others. You might even gain access to a promotion.
And at some stage along the learning journey, a confidence might grow, sufficient to empower you to seek out what you’ve always wanted, to reach for your dreams, perhaps, establish a start-up as you discover the language to inspire others about a brand, an idea, a vision.
With written communication now so critical in often work-from-home settings, there’s never been a better time to revisit writing, to level the playing field, to be a serious contender in your future. To hone your skills in writing, and to forge ahead.
Is humour appropriate to convey a serious message when writing a speech? Not always but sometimes, it’s the perfect choice.
When Sir Ken Robinson, in a TED talk, asked the audience to imagine Shakespeare as a seven-year-old child, they laughed and more importantly, they listened. He effectively used humour to convey a serious message, that schools ‘kill’ creativity.
When you write a first sentence, or a first paragraph, it’s seldom perfect the first time.
If you need to try again, to order your words differently, you are not alone. Almost everyone will rewrite the beginning of a piece.
Have you ever wondered why?
I was recently asked what made the JMP Writing Coach unique. The query allowed me to reassess what I’m doing and why.
You’ve been working on a project full-time for six months and now, you’re required to outline its entire content and purpose in 250 words. Does that sound challenging? Is it also familiar?
Writing short can be a challenge. It’s often more difficult than writing a long piece.
Using a spell checker when you’re writing is a great idea, right? Or is it?
An American professor reminded about the shortcomings of using a spell checker in a poem he penned. It contains no errors in spelling and yet, it just isn’t right.
Every serious writer will likely have a bookshelf full. To write well, they often recommend read a lot, see how others craft their words, tell a story, shape a message.
Take the author Stephen King, for example. He said, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
My 2022 goal is to empower you with language.
Can I ask you a question, ‘are you curious about whether learning to write well can make a difference to your career and to the way your life progresses’?
Has the silly season started?
I think it might have especially as I recently found a Christmas-themed word for every letter of the alphabet.
Here are five writing tips to help you with that pre-Christmas rush of deadlines.
If good writing is remembered, perhaps we should look at some of the world’s most memorable phrases to see what they have in common.
Here are three examples, each showing the skill in writing words that are remembered, not just until lunchtime, but rather, forever.