9 clear tips to improve your writing

Red Section Separator By Aditya Shukla, Psychology Author

Bring variety into sentences

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Trim your content

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Build a character

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Write FOR your audience

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Emote with good words

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Use metaphors

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Make your reader "sense"

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Give up - things, stuff, this is

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Pay attention everywhere

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