Lazy Writing Habits That Can Turn Off Your Audience
Increase your writing success by getting rid of writing habits that discourage your readers and decrease your success
Writing isn’t easy. When our writing isn’t flowing, it’s tempting to fall back on what we know. After all, isn’t that the most common advice given to writers, to write what we know?
But there’s a difference between writing something because it’s easy since it’s based on personal experience, and writing something that we strive to make relevant to a wide cross section of our readers. The latter takes a good deal of skill and the sweat of our brow. The former is just lazy. Lazy writing is a quick way to get readers to stop reading our work, both in the short term and the long term.
Writing for Yourself Instead of Your Audience
Lazy writing occurs when we are more aware of what we need instead of what our audience needs. Even when we think we’re focusing on our audience, we might be just thinking about what’s easiest for us to write.
Writing can be a frustrating business, especially when we want to write for ourselves but feel pressured to write for others. It’s really frustrating when we believe we’re writing for our audience but…
