Four Tricks That Turn Writing from Dull to Full (And Only Pros Master)

How to use literary devices and writing techniques to create greater audience engagement.

Noa Bali
Practice in Public

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We all dream of turning our writing into an echo. To snatch the audience’s attention with mere words. To offer a value that leaps off the page. Yet we keep staring at the page, unsure where to start.

What if I told you there are ways to make your writing more engaging, fluent, and vivid? Ways to make your words resonate with your readers? Pro writers do it all the time — no matter what they write about. So if you want to engage your audience more, here are four tricks to help you do that.

1. Open questions

Questions are a great way to start a topic. You can use them in the headline, at the start of your post, or at the beginning of a paragraph. You can use them however you want, but questions at the beginning usually leave the greatest mark.

Why this works — Questions make us think. They create a conversation between the writer and the reader — a thread that connects them.

Things to pay attention to:

  • Open questions are better

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Noa Bali
Practice in Public

I believe words can leave a mark, so I like to analyze what makes people tick. What makes them laugh, cry, fall in love, then write to make it happen.