Daily Writing #16: POP Writing

voice won’t come in just one newsletter, but it will come over time. Be funny. Be emotional. Just don’t be corporate. Not everything has to have a business reason. Write about what is on your mind, what is inspiring you. Where you are right now. You know the stuff only you could talk about. Only you can be you. It’s the closest thing you will get t

A writer’s voice is the combination of passion, personality, and people. It’s communication in a way that is both personally fulfilling and relevant to your audience. It’s meaningful and marketable.

A letter is a particularly delightful form of personal writing, but it is also a form of writing that has been cannibalized, chloroformed, and KO’d by new methods of communication.

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback and the iterative process—reworking, reworking, and reworking again, until a flawed story finds its throughline or a hollow character finds its soul.