Note: The following tips are adapted from a post graciously published by KevinMD.com . I've been writing professionally for almost 20 years now, and there’s still so much to learn. Here are five favorite writing “secrets” I’ve picked up so far: First drafts are supposed to suck. Aim low. Lower. Don’t try to sound any particular way. When I tutored at the writing center of my college, I’d always ask students (most of whom arrived with a crumpled, blank piece of paper) to describe their thesis to me as casually as if they were explaining it to a friend. Next step: Write that down, word for word. That’s your lump of clay. You can do whatever we want to it later. Read books about writing. The life-changers I can list off the top of my head include On Writing , by Stephen King; Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, and Get a Freelance Life by Margit Feury Ragland . For instance, Mr. King isn’t a big fan of thesauri; and I patently d...
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