The Fifth Key: Confidence
Writing students often ask about style and study other writers’ work to try to win for themselves this elusive quality. But style is gained through confidence.
And confidence is the child of courage.
The courage to tell your own truth, in your own words.
Twenty years of writing, and working with other writers, has convinced me that the best tool for excavating a clear and confident writing style is F-R-E-E-Writing.
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This concludes the series “Five Keys to Writing Excellence”. Next week we’ll have guest blogger, Ed Patterson, on Revision.
In the meantime, here’s to excellence. Don’t settle for less!
Or as Robert Browning put it: “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! ”
Happy writing!
Orna
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May 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
thanks for these tips - a different order to the usual on the internet. ymake me think. thank you