How to kill your credibility as a writer…

Linda Caroll
Feb 23, 2017 · 2 min read

There are worse things than click bait or listicles.
I’ve read listicles that were helpful. Bet you have, too.

You know what’s never helpful, and never credible?

Generalizations. Lumping masses of people together.
Millennials. Baby boomers. Republicans. Democrats.
Blacks, whites, men, women, etc.

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Linda Caroll

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