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Show Your Readers That You’re Human And Full Of Mistakes

There are many articles out there that I find interesting and very helpful on the Internet. These are talented writers who pay a lot of attention to every word, letter, number, dot, punctuation mark that they put into their articles. Some of these renowned writers are people like me, someone who works from home, sitting there sipping his or her fourth cup of coffee, smoking up the room with cigarette smoke and screaming at the kids to stop fighting.

 There is one element in ALL of my favorite articles that I find present….and that is, they’re all very personal. Yes, personal as in, the writers are not afraid to reveal themselves, their lives, their mistakes, and their experience as a writer in their articles. They scream on top of their lungs with BRIGHT BOLD LETTERS and swear their heads off when someone screws with their work. In other words, good writers usually put their hearts into the articles that they write.  

I can tell you that writing is a very methodical and also mechanical process. After some time, you write just to get it over with and when this happens, the quality of the article drops dramatically. You sit there wondering if something is wrong with the batteries in your wall clock because time seems to have stopped moving. It happens all the time. This is not the way it is supposed to be done. Good writers don’t do this. When they start getting robotic or mechanical, they get off their butts, do something else, stretch a little, read and then get back to writing.  

The reason why we need to take a break when writing becomes a chore is because we need to jumpstart the heart and not the head! The head’s doing pretty fine writing on auto-pilot. Give me any topic in the world and I can write without thinking….IT’S TRUE! Probably if I tried really hard, I can probably write with my eyes closed too. But the thing is that….whatever comes out….that article, in the end, is going to suck big time.  

And when it sucks, nobody wants to read it. Nobody reads it, you don’t get anything out of it, and therefore, I think that’s sort of like throwing money and time down the drain. Although humor is essential to an article, not everyone can tickle funny bones with words. I know Janet Evanovich, the writer of the Stephanie Plum series can do it. There are many other writers who writes funny effortlessly….but not everyone can do it. I can’t really do it unless you hand me a bottle of Vodka to go with the writing.  

But what you CAN do when writing is to write with your heart. Put your heart and soul into it, show the readers that you’re a human being, you write and you make mistakes too. I am not saying that you should leave mistakes inside the article – no! What I mean is that you should make every effort to help your readers connect with you and show them that you screw up your accounts, someone ran off with your money, you bought salt instead of sugar and you drink too much.  

Don’t be afraid of showing your readers that you make mistakes….but you leave the mistakes out of your articles.