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How to make your writing colorful
From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact
How to make your writing colorful
- We just saw how you can make your writing more evocative and stimulating by getting rid of weak words that diminish its forcefulness. In this lesson you're going to learn how to boost the evocativeness of your writing in another way by creating pictures for your readers and more generally by making it more colorful and vivid. By the end of the lesson, you'll know how to make the subtle tweaks needed to bring out the latent power of otherwise dreary and lifeless sentences. Now, over the years, I've learned that you can easily add drama to a piece of writing by creating compelling and colorful pictures in a reader's mind. And to achieve this impact, at the very minimum, you need to focus on two crucial things, players and action. That's because both players and action along with any physical objects that are referred to in a sentence are things that you can actually see in your mind's eye while you're reading. Seeing…
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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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