How To Write With Confidence

How to write with confidence is crucial if you want to succeed in any field that requires you to communicate with others. Whether through emails, blog posts, reports, or even your book, it could be a real roadblock to success if you struggle with writing. In this article, I’m going to share with you some simple ways of how you can learn how to write with confidence.

Whether you want to become a bestselling author or write a few good essays at school, confidence will be a vital factor for you. You can’t succeed without it.

When you write with confidence, you don’t just write well – you also exude a kind of power. This power allows you to get people to take you seriously and listen to what you have to say. Learn More

Spend Some Time With Great Writers

If you want to learn how to write with confidence, you need to spend some time with great writers. Great writers are those people who have an excellent grasp of the English language. It takes years of practice to accomplish, and it’s something you’ll be able to tell when you read through the work of a great writer.

Understand Your Strengths When You Write

The first thing you should be doing is recognizing your strengths and weaknesses. If you already recognize your strengths, then great – you can hopefully use that to build off of to improve the things you’re weak in. However, many people (myself included) don’t understand their strengths.

Know What You Are Going To Write About

Many people who have trouble writing start by staring at a blank screen with their fingers twitching on the keyboard; they don’t know what they want to say, making it difficult to get started. If you often find yourself in this situation, I encourage you to try this mindmap technique.

A mindmap is a drawing that can be used to represent an idea. It’s a little like a flowchart, where you begin at the center, branching out to define different paths you can take.

Here is an example of a mindmap for a book idea:

Mindmaps can capture ideas for any project: a travel itinerary, a presentation, or an article.

It can be a great alternative to the old start-at-the-top-and-write-down-whatever-you-can-think-of writing process.

Whats A Mindmap

A mindmap is a diagram of interconnected ideas. Mindmaps have been around for a long time, and they’re used in all sorts of situations, from brainstorming new business ideas, to outlining an essay, to planning a wedding.

You’ll be surprised how much easier it is to get started and make progress on a post when you have a map.

1. Write down your topic.

2. Expand and add to the topic.

3. Add in any related topics.

4. Write about the topic as you explore it.

A mindmap starts with a topic.

Start by writing down your topic. Then think of three related points. Write down those points. Now add one or two more points, and you’re done. Or are you?

The whole idea is to fill out the mindmap with all the points you want to make. Then you’ll have a good idea of exactly what you want to say.

Imagine you’re sitting in a room with a whiteboard. You want to make a complex diagram, but you can’t figure out how to organize the main topics and subtopics. What do you do?

You make a list of all the ideas that occur to you. It’s a mess. But then you draw lines between related topics. You fill in the details of some of the ideas, and you can start to see a big picture emerge.

You see where you have to go. You see the whole path laid out. But you might not know how to get there. It just looks like an overwhelming number of tasks. You might feel like you’ll never get to the end.

You don’t feel like you’ll ever know enough to get started. But then you start. One small thing. One small step. Little by little, you get there. And it’s not nearly as complicated as you thought it would be.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming is about spending some time thinking about the topic at hand. You’re looking for as many ideas as you can think of, but don’t worry about trying to make them logically consistent. You can start to see what you’re getting at. It is the process of synthesis. Now you can begin to see the form of the work, see the format that all of these ideas will go into.

Then you make a list of words that describe all of your ideas. You connect each of the ideas to one or more of these words. Then you read through the list of words, checking each word against all the ideas. The words may be in the wrong place. You erase the lines, and more ideas come to you.

You Have A Draft

You go and do something else. You get a coffee and think about the draft. You decide what to write next.

You come back to do some more editing. Add some paragraphs cross out some sentences. Re-read and re-read again. It begins to sound pretty good to you.

Now is the time to share it with people you trust. They will give you the feedback you need to polish it.

The last step is hitting the Publish Button. Learn More

Cheers,

Kevin