To run a successful blog or online business you need some writing skills. Most people will not stay on your site very long if the writing quality is poor. It doesn’t matter how great the information is, if it doesn’t make sense, people won’t read it.Here’s some quick writing tips to help you improve your writing skills.
Look at a picture and describe it. Try to use as many of the senses as you can; taste, smell, sight, sound, touch. Does the picture make you think of a certain sound or taste? Does it have aspects that look soft, fluffy or hard and cold? How would those aspects feel if you could touch them?
This exercise helps you develop the skill of using more descriptive language in your writing. You may not be a fiction writer but using fiction techniques can improve your writing skills.
Read a lot of sales copy. If you’re running a blog or online business you may already be doing this, but are you skimming the material for the benefits or are you really studying the material? What does the sales page begin with? How is it laid out for listing the problem? Does it highlight the solutions contained in the product that’s for sale? Does it compel you to want to buy? If so, then pay close attention to why it’s effective sales copy and start using that in your own sales pages.
Rewrite someone else’s sales copy. This tip is a little like the tip above except you’re going to take a section or several sections of a sales page and rewrite it. Change the wording, change the order of the listed items. Try to find better descriptive words than the ones the writer used.
Rewrite a paragraph of fiction. Yes, we’re back to the fiction thing, but writing is writing. If you improve in one area you will improve in another area. Take a paragraph of fiction and rewrite it. Change it up like you did with the sales copy. Find similar descriptive words to describe what the writer is trying to make you see or feel.
Read the dictionary. This is something not many people do, but it’s a great way to expand your vocabulary so you can write better descriptions. Having a large vocabulary will not only improve your writing but it will also help you out when you run across new words.
Writing is something practically anyone can learn and learn to do better. Not everyone can draw, paint or play a musical instrument, but anyone can learn to write. It takes practice. The more you write the better you’ll get at it. Writing “out of the box” so to speak will help improve your overall writing skills too. Don’t limit yourself to your comfort zone–get out of and improve your writing skills. Your readers will thank you and want to read more from you
