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How to make your writing colorful

How to make your writing colorful

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How to make your writing colorful

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- We just saw how you can make your writing more evocative and stimulating by getting rid of weak words that diminish its forcefulness. In this lesson you're going to learn how to boost the evocativeness of your writing in another way by creating pictures for your readers and more generally by making it more colorful and vivid. By the end of the lesson, you'll know how to make the subtle tweaks needed to bring out the latent power of otherwise dreary and lifeless sentences. Now, over the years, I've learned that you can easily add drama to a piece of writing by creating compelling and colorful pictures in a reader's mind. And to achieve this impact, at the very minimum, you need to focus on two crucial things, players and action. That's because both players and action along with any physical objects that are referred to in a sentence are things that you can actually see in your mind's eye while you're reading. Seeing…

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