Everyone Writes

Whether you write for business or personal use, writing is considered a profession except when it isn’t. Well, that’s a bit confusing, isn’t it?

Not really. During the course of the day very few people don’t write something.

Maybe it’s a note to remind yourself of something. Maybe it’s just a grocery list. Maybe it’s your daily to-do list. Or maybe you journal for stress relief and preserving whatever is going on in your life or in the life of the world.

Writing is a universal form of communication. We may write our content or message out before we share it in person or in a video.

Tell me, what do you write?

It’s interesting to see the end of the year sudden rush to buy a new planner to write and plan in. Planners have grown in features to include many pages of written goals and evaluations of the past, what we want to change for the future and a whole lot of other exciting sections. Oh, yes, the planner does include a calendar!

As a life-long writing addict, October is the month I begin searching online for new planners to decide which one will work best for me in the following year. It’s a big deal for me and I enjoy the search!

Even text messages to friends are considered writing. How something is said can be taken the wrong way if sloppy.

I blog and write articles, I outline videos I plan to record, courses I teach and work sheets that accompany each of my courses, and I make hundreds of to-do lists. I write to-do lists for anything imaginable from grocery shopping to what I call domestic housework, plans for the future, projects I want to do, especially for my Solo Lady Creator business, whatever pops into my brain.

So, what do you write?

If you write for work, it’s important to be understood clearly.

If you write a review for something you bought on Amazon you want to be brief but accurate.

OK, where am I going with this? The most helpful trick I have discovered to find errors in my writing is the little button that says “Read Aloud” in the commands menu of whatever program I am writing in. I use MS Word for most of my writing.

My opinion… there is a big difference in reading what you have written out loud to yourself compared to hearing a second voice reading it out loud to you as the listening audience.

Hearing another voice reading out loud whatever I have written is valuable to me.

It means I am hearing words I have written 
from the reader’s standpoint,
not just words out of my mouth.

Hearing the spoken word
helps me understand 
the clarity of what I’ve written
or the ambiguity of it.

Sometimes I ramble a little bit more than I should or repeatedly use a single word way too much! Listening as my writing is read I hear what needs to be fixed.

Now you know why writing is a small but important part of what I teach.

Writing is definitely at the core of the “All-In-One World of a Solo Creator.” It’s a common thread that runs through my teaching and courses at all levels, from “QUICK-START SOLO LADY CREATOR in a WEEKEND” through the advanced course and coaching “SOLO LADY CREATOR Going PRO.”  

The final step to proof your writing is to print what you wrote.

Print your almost final version with the line spacing set to 1.15. This gives you room to note your comments and corrections, even ideas for a sequel.

In this final review be sure your writing is always moving forward from start to finish! Don’t let it get stuck in the mud. That’s when people bail out and don’t read one word more! 

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