6 powerful writing tips to skyrocket your confidence

Feel your writing confidence hitting a snag?

Take heart. It happens with everyone.

Implementing these 6 writing tips will instantly put your swag at the next level.

1. Hate the gentleman who focuses on data

You’re talking to people, not presenting thesis.

Readers don’t want you to bombard them with empirical facts and figures. Don’t sermonise.

Tell ‘em a story and tie data in it to prove your point. Don’t underestimate the power of storytelling.

It has always touched our souls and will continue to do so forever.

2. Hate introductions

An artist isn’t a respecter of conventional rules. She bends them.

Shun conventional introductions:

• Firstly, it may be mentioned that the deep importance of technology is felt by everyone, no matter whatever field you belong…
• In the beginning, we would like to state that the issue of health has become a major concern for everyone, and therefore…
• During present times, we know the fact that inflation is soaring, and consequently we’re in urgent need of getting some awesome financial…

That was stale. Stone-dry. And to a fair amount, you could have even guessed sentence structures.

Instead –

Start with a question. Arouse curiosity. Focus on the real meat without giving those boring introductions containing ‘Firstlies’ and ‘therefores’.

3. Care not about rules

Forget what your teachers told you about writing rules. They’re many:

• Never start a sentence with and, but, because
• Never make incomplete sentences
• The sentences of your paragraphs must consist a beginning…

But unfortunately these rules are so drilled in our psyche that getting away from them feels like a crime.

The truth?

Artists know the rules, and they also know when to toss them out the window. And there’s no sin in beginning a sentence with ‘And’!

Because don’t forget – you’re talking to people, not writing term papers.

And this sentence leads me to the next point.

4. Be one of them

Readers are common souls. They have their portion of failings and weaknesses.

They want hearing from folks like them who too have vulnerabilities.

Talk about your fears. Tell them how you failed or how you got insulted.

Tear the curtain off your vulnerabilities, and tell them how you wriggled out from the jam.

Readers will hang on your every word.

5. Don’t underestimate readers

While you’re engaged telling them how you sailed out of troubled waters, don’t indulge in self-praise.

You don’t tell stories to make a show of your smartness. Your stories are rooted in the problems of your readers – they’re not meant so that you can brag about your successes.

You might get carried away with the flow, and then the itch to subtly praise yourself gets tougher to repel.

You might want to tell them how hard you worked or how deeply you researched about it, but if your intention is to glorify yourself, the reader would be the first person to know it.

Don’t get me wrong. Tell them about all that. But remember your story is about your readers, not about yourself.

Because the naked truth?

Your readers don’t care who you are. They come to your blog to get solutions to their problems.

You could think you’re smart. You might hint at your praise without saying “I’m smart and intellectual and that’s why I did it,” but your readers are smarter.

They don’t want to be burdened by your self-glorification. And they have a cute little option.

As they read your post, they’re constantly looking for excuses to click away. And self-glorification pulls the trigger.

6. Be full of a certain emotion

Your energy and enthusiasm flow out through your writing. The stronger the current of your emotion, the deeper it will go in to touch your readers.

Make them feel something. They might forget everything. But they won’t ever forget how you made them feel.

And this heart-gripping quote comes from the great Stephen King.

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart… but you must not come lightly to the blank page.” – Stephen King, On Writing

How to write with a rock-solid confidence? There’s no pat answer to that question, but these tips can help you navigate through blind corners and bumpy terrains till you get to the next destination.