How to Write Good

March 7, 2011 By Dave 52 Comments

We take a page out of the “Perfect is Good, Done is Better” department for today’s missive.

This is, after all, the Year of Content. (3rd Anniversary Edition.) We get questions here at HQ at least once a month along these lines:

How can you crank out so many blog posts?

Don’t you have a real job?

How do you write so good?

And all three are tied in together in the subject of this here blog post. We’ve seen our traffic shoot up, we’ve seen business come our way (and we’ve turned some down) and we do think we have a writing style that is, well, good. Some tips – for what they’re worth. If this doesn’t motivate you, not sure what will.

(Actually, an open source photo of kittens will. Aren’t they cute?)

Thanks, Jarrod Lombardo

1. Have a Theme.

Nearly all of what we talk about here weaves in a couple different concepts: Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Startups, Communication, Marketing. We choose, usually, a couple of the concepts and weave them together. And we hustle to get them out the door in the a.m.

We’re also not afraid to revisit the old stuff. Something that happened a month ago, or five years ago. A post from last year that got people riled up.

Note that we’re not going to all of a sudden start writing about how cute kittens are unless we can tie that back to something we’ve noticed going on in the business world. But, that may work for you, your audience, or the audience you someday want to reach.

2. Make Writing PART OF your job description.

I am more likely to see your stuff if you actually put it out there. In order for you to actually put it out there, you need to make time to do it.

If blogging is a hobby, then it’s likely to fall down on the priority list, replaced by real work.

If blogging – writing – is part of your job description, you have gone from someone who likes to write to someone whose writing is a legitimate business development activity.

Make the time. Write.

For us, we schedule time first thing each morning. AND, when the mood strikes, or when an idea hits us like a ton of bricks, we queue up something for the files – maybe we’ll run it later, maybe we’ll see if there’s another outlet that would like to run it. Maybe it never sees the light of day.

But we write. And it leads to business.

3. Grammar and Spelling are Important, But.

In our haste to get posts out the door, we will sometimes neglect to spell check, or we’ll throw the wrong word in at the place wrong.

Back when I was running PR for a Fortune 500 company, the dreaded wordo or typo used to cause me sleepless nights. But, if you’re gonna live in the world we’re in right now, you’ve got to let go.

“It’s” and “its” drive me crazy. But it’s because I have internalized the difference, much like the 5-handicap golfer has internalized the rule about unplayable lies. This is great if you’re playing in a tournament, or if you want to impress your buddies at the Sunday Morning Tee Time.

Most of us, though, just want to go out there, hit the ball around, maybe wait for the beer cart girl to arrive, and have that one good shot per round that will get us back on the course.

Think of writing, blogging, and social media “stuff” in the same category. Doing a proposal that could get your company the next big contract? By all means, attack that with the red pen, get many readers looking at it, run it through the spell check.

Doing a blog post that needs to get out the door by 8:30? Go with the flow, even if there’s a chance of error.

4. We don’t have all the answers.

We check out other blogs, ones that always amaze us with their ability to amaze.

Two that are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT are these: Danny Brown and Redhead Writing. They succeed every time out in grabbing attention, telling a story, and changing how we think.

So, Gentle Readers, ready to crank your writing up to the next level?

Filed Under: blogging

Anonymous

I’m quite disappointed you condone errors in writing. So much so, the rest of your post is irrelevant to me. I suppose your goal was to avoid this, in reverse. (You didn’t want to alienate readers based on a concept of perfection.) But the whole point to this post is good writing. “Errors are ok to make deadline” is very, very poor advice. Good advice would be to reassess the article, its length, its format, so as to not compromise quality and integrity.

All communication channels have rules. Formal, and informal rules. In today’s computer-assisted channel environment, the informal writing rules allow for departures from the strict style of traditional mediums. But, a set of informal rules is much different than discarding the rules altogether, or even encouraging the same. If you are encouraging content creators to write better, then encourage them to learn the rules of their space and GET better.

Anonymous

Not sure how to respond to this one, TreoBenny…

Maybe I should have been clearer: this post is probably directed at the
folks who want to use their blog to get people to visit their site, or
to know about their business — and don’t know where to begin. They
should begin by beginning.

I remember getting my copy of The 4-Hour Workweek and finding a couple
wordos and misspellings. Those stuck with me, but not because I thought
the writer or publisher foolish to let them slip through the cracks.
Instead, I was left with the prevailing message of the whole book: Get.
It. Done.

I prefer to think of blogs as closer to Live Television News than to The
Morning Newspaper. If the newsman gets known as Captain Flub and can’t
read a TelePrompTer to save his life, he will eventually go one of two
directions: back to the lab to learn how to deliver the story, or off to
another line of work. Other than Ron Burgundy, the newsreader will
survive the misspellings and punctuation in the script to deliver the
message.

And we should focus on delivering ours – or we’ll lose for waiting on it
to the poorly written blog that is actually published.

Anonymous

It’s easy to support mediocrity. It’s comfortable, it doesn’t ruffle feathers, for some it’s even endearing. We, the creators of content, have a responsibility to not only ourselves, but to the community. The space itself. To uphold its accountability, broadcast its integrity, and demonstrate its accuracy. The above article is a great example of why a college professor, or other educator, would disallow blog posts as proper sources for research. If you don’t see that as shooting fish through the hull of your row boat, then I’m not sure how to respond, myself.

Anonymous

But I’m not writing for college students who are doing research for a paper.

I know my audience – I have one, I find out what they want to know about
by speaking with them on a regular basis, in a variety of formats.
They’re who I write for.

I have a responsibility to them: To give them valuable thinking,
insights, commentary and advice in exchange for their valuable time.

I did not get this audience overnight – and I value what they say in the
comments and what they tell me in email, on the phone, in person, at
conferences, in seminars or wherever.

When I’m writing my next book, it will have the greater attention to
detail that that format affords. However, as a small business that is
making waves with limited staff, resources, and budget, I don’t have
copy editors, an assignment desk or others to run my posts through.

But I so prefer the WYSIWYG approach – yes, I’m more vulnerable that
way, but I’m also more “me.”

http://marianlibrarian.com Marian Schembari

Dude. You’ve read my mind. I’m actually posting about spelling/grammar for bloggers later this week. Treo, a few errors here and there is not “mediocrity.” Sure, don’t be lazy, check your facts and make an effort for your writing to look polished. But don’t stress about it. If you work for a major publication, there are copyeditors for that. If you’re running your own blog? Your readers don’t stick around because you once wrote “alot” instead of “a lot.” Some of the mos t successful sites on the web post the occasionally spelling or grammar mistake and it’s not the end of the world. The fact that you couldn’t digest the rest of this post says something interesting about YOU, not Dave. And definitely not the majority of readers.
Anonymous

Marian, thanks for weighing in…

FWIW, your name comes up often in conversations about blogs worth
reading that add tremendous value. (Friends, it’s here:
http://marianlibrarian.com.) You have an audience that you haven’t built
up overnight, and your hustle and timeliness score you points – in
addition to your ability to write quite well. So I appreciate the comment.
Anonymous

It certainly says alot about me. I’m the one writing the comment am I not?

Like the fact I mentioned the blogging space has a slightly different set of rules for its structure. Your example is perfect. “A lot” versus “alot.” “Lot” is a fairly deprecated term. A lot of this, a lot of that. We just don’t talk like that today. Familiar speech has created a new word, a descriptor instead of a noun. That is an example of recognizing the evolution of communication.

People are infinitely imperfect. Don’t take the easy way out and dismiss what I’m saying as “Treo says to be perfect.” I’m saying it’s disappointing that Dave would condone the error prior to publishing. I find it irresponsible for a person in a position of presumed expertise (to the reader) to tell the reader it’s ok to publish errors. It’s not ok and it only helps to add volume to the critics of this entire landscape.
Anonymous

No sir, you don’t know your audience at all. To say a piece published on the World Wide Web belongs to a specific audience is…naive at best.
Anonymous

Respectfully disagree. For instance, this morning, when this post hit,
before I personally tweeted it myself, 2 people (representing 1/6500th
of my Twitter audience) had already retweeted the link. Both had nice
things to say about the post. Two of my Facebook friends, both folks I
have met in real life, happened to disagree with some of what I said –
one rather vehemently.

So maybe I should change it to say “I CONNECT with my audience.”

Anonymous

I’m quite disappointed you condone errors in writing. So much so, the rest of your post is irrelevant to me. I suppose your goal was to avoid this, in reverse. (You didn’t want to alienate readers based on a concept of perfection.) But the whole point to this post is good writing. “Errors are ok to make deadline” is very, very poor advice. Good advice would be to reassess the article, its length, its format, so as to not compromise quality and integrity.

All communication channels have rules. Formal, and informal rules. In today’s computer-assisted channel environment, the informal writing rules allow for departures from the strict style of traditional mediums. But, a set of informal rules is much different than discarding the rules altogether, or even encouraging the same. If you are encouraging content creators to write better, then encourage them to learn the rules of their space and GET better.

Anonymous

Not sure how to respond to this one, TreoBenny…

Maybe I should have been clearer: this post is probably directed at the
folks who want to use their blog to get people to visit their site, or
to know about their business — and don’t know where to begin. They
should begin by beginning.

I remember getting my copy of The 4-Hour Workweek and finding a couple
wordos and misspellings. Those stuck with me, but not because I thought
the writer or publisher foolish to let them slip through the cracks.
Instead, I was left with the prevailing message of the whole book: Get.
It. Done.

I prefer to think of blogs as closer to Live Television News than to The
Morning Newspaper. If the newsman gets known as Captain Flub and can’t
read a TelePrompTer to save his life, he will eventually go one of two
directions: back to the lab to learn how to deliver the story, or off to
another line of work. Other than Ron Burgundy, the newsreader will
survive the misspellings and punctuation in the script to deliver the
message.

And we should focus on delivering ours – or we’ll lose for waiting on it
to the poorly written blog that is actually published.

Anonymous

It’s easy to support mediocrity. It’s comfortable, it doesn’t ruffle feathers, for some it’s even endearing. We, the creators of content, have a responsibility to not only ourselves, but to the community. The space itself. To uphold its accountability, broadcast its integrity, and demonstrate its accuracy. The above article is a great example of why a college professor, or other educator, would disallow blog posts as proper sources for research. If you don’t see that as shooting fish through the hull of your row boat, then I’m not sure how to respond, myself.

Anonymous

But I’m not writing for college students who are doing research for a paper.

I know my audience – I have one, I find out what they want to know about
by speaking with them on a regular basis, in a variety of formats.
They’re who I write for.

I have a responsibility to them: To give them valuable thinking,
insights, commentary and advice in exchange for their valuable time.

I did not get this audience overnight – and I value what they say in the
comments and what they tell me in email, on the phone, in person, at
conferences, in seminars or wherever.

When I’m writing my next book, it will have the greater attention to
detail that that format affords. However, as a small business that is
making waves with limited staff, resources, and budget, I don’t have
copy editors, an assignment desk or others to run my posts through.

But I so prefer the WYSIWYG approach – yes, I’m more vulnerable that
way, but I’m also more “me.”

http://marianlibrarian.com Marian Schembari

Dude. You’ve read my mind. I’m actually posting about spelling/grammar for bloggers later this week. Treo, a few errors here and there is not “mediocrity.” Sure, don’t be lazy, check your facts and make an effort for your writing to look polished. But don’t stress about it. If you work for a major publication, there are copyeditors for that. If you’re running your own blog? Your readers don’t stick around because you once wrote “alot” instead of “a lot.” Some of the mos t successful sites on the web post the occasionally spelling or grammar mistake and it’s not the end of the world. The fact that you couldn’t digest the rest of this post says something interesting about YOU, not Dave. And definitely not the majority of readers.
Anonymous

Marian, thanks for weighing in…

FWIW, your name comes up often in conversations about blogs worth
reading that add tremendous value. (Friends, it’s here:
http://marianlibrarian.com.) You have an audience that you haven’t built
up overnight, and your hustle and timeliness score you points – in
addition to your ability to write quite well. So I appreciate the comment.
Anonymous

It certainly says alot about me. I’m the one writing the comment am I not?

Like the fact I mentioned the blogging space has a slightly different set of rules for its structure. Your example is perfect. “A lot” versus “alot.” “Lot” is a fairly deprecated term. A lot of this, a lot of that. We just don’t talk like that today. Familiar speech has created a new word, a descriptor instead of a noun. That is an example of recognizing the evolution of communication.

People are infinitely imperfect. Don’t take the easy way out and dismiss what I’m saying as “Treo says to be perfect.” I’m saying it’s disappointing that Dave would condone the error prior to publishing. I find it irresponsible for a person in a position of presumed expertise (to the reader) to tell the reader it’s ok to publish errors. It’s not ok and it only helps to add volume to the critics of this entire landscape.
Anonymous

No sir, you don’t know your audience at all. To say a piece published on the World Wide Web belongs to a specific audience is…naive at best.
Anonymous

Respectfully disagree. For instance, this morning, when this post hit,
before I personally tweeted it myself, 2 people (representing 1/6500th
of my Twitter audience) had already retweeted the link. Both had nice
things to say about the post. Two of my Facebook friends, both folks I
have met in real life, happened to disagree with some of what I said –
one rather vehemently.

So maybe I should change it to say “I CONNECT with my audience.”

Anedra09

I agree with TreoBenny here. I believe any writing posted for public consumption should be well-written. If it isn’t, I for one would not want to read it and would not find it credible. I get what you’re saying, that you have to start somewhere, but we are settling for less than our best far too often in this society. That’s just lazy. As my mother often told me, “Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.”

Anonymous

While I hear you on the desire for “well-written,” I also know the world
in which we live. The one where more new content is created in video
form every hour than you could consume in an entire day of television
watching in 1962. The one where search engine optimized posts that lack
any polish get higher rankings than ones that are great examples of the
craft of writing.

My tongue-in-cheek headline “How to Write Good” was meant to be
attention-grabbing, but I stand by the main premise – I’m tired of
hearing people say “I should start blogging” and then seeing them six
months later and having them say “I should start blogging.”

Anedra09

I agree with TreoBenny here. I believe any writing posted for public consumption should be well-written. If it isn’t, I for one would not want to read it and would not find it credible. I get what you’re saying, that you have to start somewhere, but we are settling for less than our best far too often in this society. That’s just lazy. As my mother often told me, “Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.”

Anonymous

While I hear you on the desire for “well-written,” I also know the world
in which we live. The one where more new content is created in video
form every hour than you could consume in an entire day of television
watching in 1962. The one where search engine optimized posts that lack
any polish get higher rankings than ones that are great examples of the
craft of writing.

My tongue-in-cheek headline “How to Write Good” was meant to be
attention-grabbing, but I stand by the main premise – I’m tired of
hearing people say “I should start blogging” and then seeing them six
months later and having them say “I should start blogging.”

Gary

Treo and Anedra09, you are missing the point. Dave is saying to not worry about perfection right out of the gate. It’s called practice. Perfection comes later. But if you don’t practice, you don’t attain perfection or in this case better writing. And if you only read blog posts that are perfectly written, well, you won’t have that many blogs to read.

And Anedra09 I’d have to disagree with your mother’s statement. I say “anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Because otherwise no one would learn to ride a bike because it can’t be done “well” at the first try.

I say write the badly written blog post, people will correct you. Take the correction and improve your writing.

Crash the bike until you can ride without crashing. But you can’t ride without crashing until you crash the bike by trying.

Anonymous

By very careful Gary – To disagree with the point is not to miss it, and it could be considered insulting to imply the same.

To your point, blogging is asynchronous. The debate really ends there, in my opinion. The “practice” you speak of is done with drafts. Or a limited and controlled publishing, (something Dave could have included as a truly helpful bit of advice.) Your bike metaphor is just plain bad. We are talking about published posts, something that bears no real congruency to a real-time event like riding a bike.

You actually address one of my concerns in your opening paragraph. That the number of blog posts with errors are in the majority. We should be positioning ourselves to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. “People will correct you” … but, didn’t you want them influenced by what you had to say?

Gary

I’m not concerned about things that “could be considered insulting.” Because it could be considered insulting to tell me to “be very careful…”

Blogging is not asynchronous. Which is another of Dave’s points. You must have timing requirements in order to succeed at blogging. And with timing requirements that enable blogging success you will have to accept errors.

Anonymous

“Blogging is not asynchronous.” This is your rebuttal? o.O

Gary

One of them yes. So what? This is your reply? o.O

Gary

Because it’s funny. I have to bring up “By” in your first word of this reply to me. I don’t mean to be mean, but it does prove Dave’s point.

Anonymous

It would prove Dave’s point if I recognized the typo and sent it anyway. This *might* be the crux of my argument.

If a typo escapes your best attempt to catch it, it only means you’re human. Spell check might not have caught this one because I spelled a valid word, albeit by mistake. The whole reason I disagree with Dave is because he says getting the “message” out trumps an error free post. “Doing a blog post that needs to get out the door by 8:30? Go with the flow, even if there’s a chance of error.” Terrible advice. It’s bad advice to an individual and just helps to further erode the integrity of Web publishing. Which also makes it irresponsible.

Gary

Is it not implied in Dave’s section upon which we discuss? He did not say ignore the mistakes you see and send anyway. He says implying an after the fact posting is when the errors are found. And that it is better to post with *possible* errors rather than post late in the game. Because if you post late in the game in regards to a subject you would likely be considered a “has been.”
Gary

Sorry, forgot to reply to this other part.

If we were talking about the Space Shuttle and just going with the flow and hit the launch button anyway, then yes it is bad advice. People could die. But we are talking about a blog. No one will die from a typo and computers across the globe won’t suddenly freeze up. For encouraging people to start writing, it is great advice.

“just helps to further erode the integrity of Web publishing” You assume that the integrity of web publishing was perfect in the first place.

Blogs that get better at writing stay around. Blogs that don’t get written because of they fear the grammar police don’t get written at all. Even worse for web publishing.

Anonymous

Thanks, Gary. Now that you mention it, I should have changed the Title
to “Don’t worry about perfection right out of the gate.” But, as we
know, “How to Write Good” is the kind of attention-grabbing headline
that gets read. Ah, the blogosphere…

Cheers!

Gary

Treo and Anedra09, you are missing the point. Dave is saying to not worry about perfection right out of the gate. It’s called practice. Perfection comes later. But if you don’t practice, you don’t attain perfection or in this case better writing. And if you only read blog posts that are perfectly written, well, you won’t have that many blogs to read.

And Anedra09 I’d have to disagree with your mother’s statement. I say “anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” Because otherwise no one would learn to ride a bike because it can’t be done “well” at the first try.

I say write the badly written blog post, people will correct you. Take the correction and improve your writing.

Crash the bike until you can ride without crashing. But you can’t ride without crashing until you crash the bike by trying.

Anonymous

By very careful Gary – To disagree with the point is not to miss it, and it could be considered insulting to imply the same.

To your point, blogging is asynchronous. The debate really ends there, in my opinion. The “practice” you speak of is done with drafts. Or a limited and controlled publishing, (something Dave could have included as a truly helpful bit of advice.) Your bike metaphor is just plain bad. We are talking about published posts, something that bears no real congruency to a real-time event like riding a bike.

You actually address one of my concerns in your opening paragraph. That the number of blog posts with errors are in the majority. We should be positioning ourselves to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. “People will correct you” … but, didn’t you want them influenced by what you had to say?

Gary

I’m not concerned about things that “could be considered insulting.” Because it could be considered insulting to tell me to “be very careful…”

Blogging is not asynchronous. Which is another of Dave’s points. You must have timing requirements in order to succeed at blogging. And with timing requirements that enable blogging success you will have to accept errors.

Anonymous

“Blogging is not asynchronous.” This is your rebuttal? o.O

Gary

One of them yes. So what? This is your reply? o.O

Gary

Because it’s funny. I have to bring up “By” in your first word of this reply to me. I don’t mean to be mean, but it does prove Dave’s point.

Anonymous

It would prove Dave’s point if I recognized the typo and sent it anyway. This *might* be the crux of my argument.

If a typo escapes your best attempt to catch it, it only means you’re human. Spell check might not have caught this one because I spelled a valid word, albeit by mistake. The whole reason I disagree with Dave is because he says getting the “message” out trumps an error free post. “Doing a blog post that needs to get out the door by 8:30? Go with the flow, even if there’s a chance of error.” Terrible advice. It’s bad advice to an individual and just helps to further erode the integrity of Web publishing. Which also makes it irresponsible.

Gary

Is it not implied in Dave’s section upon which we discuss? He did not say ignore the mistakes you see and send anyway. He says implying an after the fact posting is when the errors are found. And that it is better to post with *possible* errors rather than post late in the game. Because if you post late in the game in regards to a subject you would likely be considered a “has been.”
Gary

Sorry, forgot to reply to this other part.

If we were talking about the Space Shuttle and just going with the flow and hit the launch button anyway, then yes it is bad advice. People could die. But we are talking about a blog. No one will die from a typo and computers across the globe won’t suddenly freeze up. For encouraging people to start writing, it is great advice.

“just helps to further erode the integrity of Web publishing” You assume that the integrity of web publishing was perfect in the first place.

Blogs that get better at writing stay around. Blogs that don’t get written because of they fear the grammar police don’t get written at all. Even worse for web publishing.

Anonymous

Thanks, Gary. Now that you mention it, I should have changed the Title
to “Don’t worry about perfection right out of the gate.” But, as we
know, “How to Write Good” is the kind of attention-grabbing headline
that gets read. Ah, the blogosphere…

Cheers!

Anonymous

Great post, Dave. I am a spelling and grammar freak, so I do think accuracy is important. I also think that regularly missing spelling, usage or punctuation errors sends a message to the client or prospective clients out there that your attention to detail isn’t what might be expected. Me, that drives me batty. So I strive for work product in the blog that I can be as proud of as I would be in a client proposal.

But all other points, I completely agree with – GET IT OUT THERE. And pay yourself first. Blogging is a part of marketing your business. Quit putting it off – do it, every week. You’ll be glad you did.

Shelly
@shellykramer

Anonymous

Yeah, I think I’ve realized that the 3rd point – “Spelling and Grammar
are Important, But.” – was the one that led people to think I prefer
shoddy work to well-done work. I’m also aware that not everyone is able
to whip up a blog post as quickly as, say, me.

I’d also love to play “count the typos” somewhere like HuffPo. Uh…

In any event, my next write-up will be, simply, “Perfect is good, Done
is better.”

Thanks for the comment…

Anonymous

Great post, Dave. I am a spelling and grammar freak, so I do think accuracy is important. I also think that regularly missing spelling, usage or punctuation errors sends a message to the client or prospective clients out there that your attention to detail isn’t what might be expected. Me, that drives me batty. So I strive for work product in the blog that I can be as proud of as I would be in a client proposal.

But all other points, I completely agree with – GET IT OUT THERE. And pay yourself first. Blogging is a part of marketing your business. Quit putting it off – do it, every week. You’ll be glad you did.

Shelly
@shellykramer

Anonymous

Yeah, I think I’ve realized that the 3rd point – “Spelling and Grammar
are Important, But.” – was the one that led people to think I prefer
shoddy work to well-done work. I’m also aware that not everyone is able
to whip up a blog post as quickly as, say, me.

I’d also love to play “count the typos” somewhere like HuffPo. Uh…

In any event, my next write-up will be, simply, “Perfect is good, Done
is better.”

Thanks for the comment…

http://www.bsitko.com Bill Szczytko

I’ll be the first to admit that I am overly anal when it comes to spelling. Having a blog which has misspelled words tells me that either 1) They rushed it or 2) They are terrible spellers. Either one of these will cause me to not come back. Spelling is fundamental which means that if your message is misspelled it can’t be any good. But HEY … maybe it’s just me but I’d rather spend a few extra minutes; maybe until 8:45 to make sure things are spelled right.

Anonymous

Bill – thanks for visiting and the comment…

I know of one blogger/bloggess who has wordos like crazy – you’re vs.
your, and apostrophes where they shouldn’t be. They are also enough of a
character that I revisit whenever there’s something new. I take it all
in stride; but I applaud you for sticking to your spelling guns.

http://www.bsitko.com Bill Szczytko

I’ll be the first to admit that I am overly anal when it comes to spelling. Having a blog which has misspelled words tells me that either 1) They rushed it or 2) They are terrible spellers. Either one of these will cause me to not come back. Spelling is fundamental which means that if your message is misspelled it can’t be any good. But HEY … maybe it’s just me but I’d rather spend a few extra minutes; maybe until 8:45 to make sure things are spelled right.

Anonymous

Bill – thanks for visiting and the comment…

I know of one blogger/bloggess who has wordos like crazy – you’re vs.
your, and apostrophes where they shouldn’t be. They are also enough of a
character that I revisit whenever there’s something new. I take it all
in stride; but I applaud you for sticking to your spelling guns.

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How to Write Good

We take a page out of the “Perfect is Good, Done is Better” department for today’s missive.

1. Have a Theme.

2. Make Writing PART OF your job description.

3. Grammar and Spelling are Important, But.

4. We don’t have all the answers.

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