3 Ways You Can Improve Your Writing

Learn these three easy practices & help your writing become more understandable, compelling, and credible.

Paula High-Young
9 min readAug 22, 2020

Why are you writing?

When we write something like an email, an article, a blog post, or a story, there’s a reason.

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We have a message we want to communicate with someone or to our specific crowd.

In the case of blog posts, articles, and stories (like on Medium), your writing might serve to voice an opinion, share an experience, to express yourself, teach something, entertain, or to persuade your audience.

Whatever your reasons for writing, there’s the expectation someone will actually read it. Let’s assume; in addition to wanting people to read it, you also want them to understand what you’ve written — otherwise, why bother writing it?

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If you come across as confusing, unclear, or blathering, no one will care to finished reading anything…

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Paula High-Young

Life & Wellness coach. Writer. “Ham radio” operator KZ5YL, photographer, & hot-air balloonist. www.HolisticWellnessWriters.com