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How to make your writing forceful

How to make your writing forceful

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How to make your writing forceful

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- We just saw how to add more variety to your words and sentences to make your writing more stimulating. In this lesson, I want to look at another way that you can make your writing more stimulating, which is by increasing its forcefulness. To start with, there are a bunch of words that writers often use carelessly that significantly weaken the power of their prose. And I want to make sure that you know how to avoid this sort of weak writing. There's a certain class of weak words we often default to, mostly out of habit, or maybe because we are so used to seeing them so often in other people's writing, and so we assume that it's the appropriate way to say things. However, when we litter our copy with these low power words, as I call them, it can take away quite a bit from the evocativeness of your writing. You may have heard them referred to by others as filler words or hedging words. I'm talking about words like somehow…

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