WRITE HOW YOU TALK. OFTEN

I ADMIT, SOMETIMES I FEEL LAZY, TOO LAZY TO WRITE A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THIS BLOG SO I POST PRETTY PICTURES.

AND I KNOW ITS A COP OUT.

I AM SMARTER THAN THAT, AND YES I WHOLE HEARTEDLY AGREE

PRETTY PICTURES CAN INSPIRE IN WAYS THAT SOMETIMES WORDS CANNOT,

I SHOULD NOT BE SO LAZY AS TO POST PHOTOGRAPHS WITHOUT EXPLANATION.

AND SOMETIMES I AM

I READ A BLOG POST BY SETH GODIN THIS MORNING, AND AM GOING TO TRY MY VERY BEST TO WRITE MORE. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW ME PERSONALLY YOU MIGHT HEAR MY VOICE CHATTERING AWAY AS YOU READ MY POSTS.

IF SO I HAVE WRITTEN THAT LITTLE TINKLE OR SENTENCE WELL.

I WRITE ON HERE AS MYSELF, I NATTER, I GIGGLE, I WRITE SARCASTICALLY, AND TRY MY HARDEST TO BE HONEST, AND OPEN, AND NOT TOO SELF INDULGENT.

SO IT IS MY VOW TO MY BLOG, THAT I WILL MAKE MORE EFFORT,

I WON'T BE LAZY AND I WILL WRITE HOW I TALK, AND EXPLAIN MYSELF.

READ SETH'S ARTICLE HERE!

Talker's block

No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks,

until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

Why then, is writer's block endemic?

The reason we don't get talker's block is that we're in the habit of talking without a lot of concern for whether or not our inane blather will come back to haunt us. Talk is cheap. Talk is ephemeral. Talk can be easily denied.

We talk poorly and then, eventually (or sometimes), we talk smart. We get better at talking precisely because we talk.

We see what works and what doesn't, and if we're insightful, do more of what works. How can one get talker's block after all this practice?

Writer's block isn't hard to cure.

Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.

I believe that everyone should write in public. Get a blog. Or use Squidoo or Tumblr or a microblogging site. Use an alias if you like. Turn off comments, certainly--you don't need more criticism, you need more writing.

Do it every day. Every single day. Not a diary, not fiction, but analysis.

Clear, crisp, honest writing about what you see in the world. Or want to see. Or teach (in writing). Tell us how to do something.

If you know you have to write something every single day, even a paragraph, you will improve your writing.

If you're concerned with quality, of course, then not writing is not a problem, because zero is perfect and without defects. Shipping nothing is safe.

The second best thing to zero is something better than bad. So if you know you have write tomorrow, your brain will start working on something better than bad. And then you'll inevitably redefine bad and tomorrow will be better than that. And on and on.

Write like you talk. Often.

By SETH GODIN

CHECK OUT SETH'S BLOG HERE

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