Hand Copy Your Favorites

The basics of writing are well understood and time tested.

Learn grammar until it's unconscious. Most of us have this down pat in our native language. Knowing all the "labels" might help in English courses, but if you can talk and be easily understood, you have the basics of grammar and communication. That's what you need to write and be understood!

When composing original new writing, write fast and without editing.

Edit your words ruthlessly until just the purified essence remains, clearly communicating what you want to say. Show me the pithy…

Modeling Excellent Writing

As accelerated learning pioneers and researchers have experimented and developed instilling excellence, modeling has become one of the most talked about and used techniques. There are many ways to "model" (copy in an accurate way) the behavior of someone you want to emulate. I'm going to describe the easiest one for writing and one of the most powerful writing skill improvement ways around…

A powerful way to model excellent writing is simple. You copy writing you admire, by hand.

The procedure is straight forward: Each day, for 10 minutes you hand copy your favorite author (…from the genre you are writing in). This is such a simple idea, that you might be tempted to skip it… However it is a proven Key step! Not only will it help to bust your writer's block, it will exponentially ramp up your writing ability and the quality of your writing.

Just for this purpose get a notebook, and everyday copy out — by hand — the writing of your favorite author for 10 minutes… or more. The intention you set as you start this has proven to be important… you are never plagiarizing; you are gleaning the style, the tempo, the written flow of a favorite author and intimately modeling it. This teaches your unconscious mind to integrate those elements into your own unique writing style.