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How to make your writing forceful
From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact
How to make your writing forceful
- We just saw how to add more variety to your words and sentences to make your writing more stimulating. In this lesson, I want to look at another way that you can make your writing more stimulating, which is by increasing its forcefulness. To start with, there are a bunch of words that writers often use carelessly that significantly weaken the power of their prose. And I want to make sure that you know how to avoid this sort of weak writing. There's a certain class of weak words we often default to, mostly out of habit, or maybe because we are so used to seeing them so often in other people's writing, and so we assume that it's the appropriate way to say things. However, when we litter our copy with these low power words, as I call them, it can take away quite a bit from the evocativeness of your writing. You may have heard them referred to by others as filler words or hedging words. I'm talking about words like somehow…
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How I discovered the secret sauce9m
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The magic of simplicity3m 25s
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How to make your writing tight6m 50s
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How to make your writing plain4m 57s
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How to make your writing straightforward6m 44s
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The magic of clarity2m 12s
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How to make your writing precise4m 52s
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How to make your writing sharp4m 31s
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How to make your writing specific14m 5s
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The magic of elegance2m 35s
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How to make your writing tidy6m 57s
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How to make your writing graceful4m 35s
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How to make your writing musical7m 12s
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The magic of evocativeness3m 28s
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How to make your writing varied4m 9s
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How to make your writing forceful3m 47s
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How to make your writing colorful11m 47s
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