COPYWRITING ADVICE THAT WOULD’VE SAVED ME 10 YEARS OF THERAPYIf I could travel back to 22-year-old me — crying in a bathroom stall between revision rounds — here’s what I’d whisper through the vent:FEEDBACK IS NOT A DEMOCRACYStop collecting feedback like Pokemon. Pick ONE person with taste.If you ask 12 people, you get 12 opinions and one... See more

My high-level advice—which supersedes everything below—is that you should decide what you want from your writing, and then completely ignore any advice which detracts from this goal.

Most of the students who came into the Writing Center thought the problem with their essay was located somewhere between their forehead and the paper in front of them. That is, they assumed their thinking was fine, but they were stuck on this last, annoying, arbitrary step where they have to find the right words for the contents of their minds.

But... See more