Unveiling the Secret to Crisp Writing — 5 Tips For New Writers

Level up your writing game with these 5 proven tips for confident and crisp prose.

Anangsha Alammyan
Freelancer’s Hub
Published in
3 min readApr 2, 2023

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With the AI revolution around the corner, it’s important now more than ever to make your writing sound crisp, confident, and full of personality.

Based on my experience of publishing online since 2014, here are five small but powerful writing tips to dramatically improve your work quality and sound confident (with examples).

Most writers will miss these.

Don’t be like most writers.

1. Delete “that”

Previous — I learned that writing online can make money.

After — I learned writing online can make money.

Explanation: “That”s in your sentence slow your reader down and make your writing sound drab and boring. If you’ve been working with AI writing tools of late, you’d understand that text generated by AI uses a lot of “that”.

To make your writing crisp and easy to read, you know which word to delete first.

2. Delete words that don’t make a difference

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