Comments on: 33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer

By: aGuyWhoTypes

aGuyWhoTypes — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:42:00 +0000

Thank you, love this.

By: Kendra@ HeyKendra.com

Kendra@ HeyKendra.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:23:00 +0000

Fantastic read. I loved so many of these, but my favorite was “for the next ten things you write, tell people something that nobody knows about you.”

Thanks for delivering an incredible read!

By: Yuta Aoki

Yuta Aoki — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 02:35:00 +0000

Your advice is so valuable that I keep coming back here. I especially follow ‘deliver value with every sentence’. If a sentence doesn’t add new information or ‘poetry,’ I delete it.

Actually, I would rephrase it as ‘deliver value with every WORD.’ Even in this comment, I deleted a couple of dozen words.

By: Hans Cox

Hans Cox — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:30:00 +0000

Ha ha ha! What a wonderful last line! Your post makes me wonder what the original last paragraph was. :-D I’ve discovered your blog in the last week, and you just make me put my shoes on.

By: Christine Boudreau

Christine Boudreau — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:15:00 +0000

Thanks, James, you provide great advice as always. I’d like to add #34: Throw the first draft in the trash. Start over. Write 3 more versions. Then dig the first one out of the trash. It was always the best one.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:11:00 +0000

This is the best comment I have ever read on the internet.

By: Antara Man

Antara Man — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:42:00 +0000

Very good stuff. I always change the first sentence and/or paragraph. They are like opening and closing titles. You seems to use provocative titles that get a lot of eyeballs like “I want my daughters to be lesbians” or “I want my daughters to be drug addicts” but then you don’t go the direction, we expect to. I understand why you do it but still you send messages out there. Now I am using this trick to gauge interest in my free report. I thought title like “50 Life Hacks for Living a Better Life” but came up with “50 Shades of a Healthier Life”. pretty much draws to 50 shades of Gray, hugh?

By: Clayton Elliott

Clayton Elliott — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:31:00 +0000

James, this is one of the most helpful posts in relation to my creative writing process. I’m working on completing my first book and I’ve experienced every self-sabotaging setback in the book. I’m in the home stretch now and all the points you’ve listed here are going to help me get to the finish line that much faster (and with more piece of mind).

Thank you :)

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These tips is really wonderful to use especially that it can give a good output to the one who will follow it. Also, there are many things that they need to consider in order to fully use the skills that they need in writing.

By: WEHPE

WEHPE — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:09:00 +0000

This is the funniest and best writing advice i’ve ever read. Thanks.-