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How to make your writing tidy
From the course: A Crash Course in Writing Well: Learn to Write with More Style, Flair, and Impact
How to make your writing tidy
- Few writers these days pay enough attention to the aesthetics of how their writing looks on the page. After this lesson, you won't be one of those messy writers. Indeed, you're going to know how to spit and polish up your text, so that they end up being as pleasing to the eye as they are to the ear. Now, there are many ways to help make your writing look more elegant from a presentational standpoint. At the most basic level, you want to clean up any obvious messiness in your copy, starting with typos, spelling, punctuation mistakes. But beyond such obvious messiness, there are other things to look out for, things like inconsistency, or a lack of symmetry on the page itself. For instance, do check that all of your headings and subheadings are in the same type of font. Perhaps you changed the font at some point and left one heading accidentally out of the change. That creates a mess. And are those headings and…
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How I discovered the secret sauce9m
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The magic of simplicity3m 25s
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How to make your writing tight6m 50s
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How to make your writing plain4m 57s
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How to make your writing straightforward6m 44s
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The magic of clarity2m 12s
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How to make your writing precise4m 52s
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How to make your writing sharp4m 31s
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How to make your writing specific14m 5s
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The magic of elegance2m 35s
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How to make your writing tidy6m 57s
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How to make your writing graceful4m 35s
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How to make your writing musical7m 12s
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The magic of evocativeness3m 28s
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How to make your writing varied4m 9s
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How to make your writing forceful3m 47s
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How to make your writing colorful11m 47s
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