73 Ways to Become a Better Writer

Anyone interested in improving their writing skills will want to check out Mary Jaksch’s mega-list of writing tips on Copyblogger. 73 Ways to Become a Better Writer presents a list of suggestions from the blog’s readers. Here are the top ten:

1. Become a blogger.
2. Use self-imposed word limits.
3. Accept all forms of criticism and learn to grow from it.
4. Read what you’ve written over and over, until you can’t find any more problems.
5. Show what you write to a trusted friend for feedback.
6. Outline. And then write to that outline.
7. Edit, and edit again.
8. Live with passion.
9. Be open, curious, present, and engaged.
10. Take a break between writing and editing.

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