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15 Ways to Take Your Writing to the Next Level

These tips can help you improve your grammar, style, and purpose as a writer.

Benjamin Watkins
8 min readOct 7, 2020
Photo by David Travis on Unsplash

Writing is an art.

You have to find your voice, style, and rhythm.

If that’s not enough, you have to obey the rules of grammar, at least some of them. Periods and commas can be either cruel or kind to writers. If you don’t respect them enough, they can make your writing awful. If you give them the credit they deserve, periods and commas wonderfully enhance your work.

What I’m trying to say is that there are no shortcuts when it comes to writing.

“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
Ray Bradbury

The hardest part of learning how to write is learning how to do it better. And that requires hard work. But it’s rather unhelpful to say something is hard work without explaining what that…

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Benjamin Watkins
Benjamin Watkins

Written by Benjamin Watkins

Founder of ThisIsCopy.com | Health Tech Copywriter | Copywriting examples at https://laviebenrose.substack.com/. Dad of five adventurous kids..

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