Improve whatever your venture is

Hello to all!

Absolutely love this quote: Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard which is somewhere on LinkedIn. So thank you to whoever came up with it. This has got to be one of the most truthful statements ever made.

I found it at this website, which is quite good if you want some good tips for Freelance Writing. http://www.writeawriting.com/freelance/build-your-writing-portfolio/ I haven't followed it for long, but already I've picked up a few things.

It really never hurts to try to squeeze 1/2 hour or so out of even a very heavy day to simply see what you can find to improve your writing. For all of you who say writing never changes from day to day, I say: BULL****. You mightn't notice the changes, but they are there and almost each day there is a new one. Hopefully, you are savvy enough to keep up with the basics of what is changing.

Google started the trend with its alogorhythms, I think. Since it began, everyone is still trying to beat the system and mostly still failing, sometimes very badly. If something is being programmed to be more like a human, then don't you think you should be writing for a human in order to get noticed?

That sounds pretty simple, I guess, but it is amazing how many people trying to build a business fail to do this. Take a look at your speech patterns. Apart from the usual 'um', 'ah' or 'mmm' while your brain is trying to catch up with your mouth, do you REALLY say one sentence of around 20 words and use the keyword for that sentence 5 times in it?

An experiment to do is to pick a word which interests you and you know a bit about and speak a sentence or two into something that will replay it for you. Check how many times you actually use the keyword naturally in that sentence/sentences. If you are not trying to force it, then you may find it there maybe two times. Do this exercise two or three times. If you really take notice, you will find your brain actually tries to substitute other words that mean the same if you allow it to.

No matter how small you consider your vocabulary, you do know at least one other word to mean the same as you are using, or even a phrase. A good speech writer also understands this. The most boring speech on the face of the planet can be livened up simply by substituting some words for ones with more action meaning the same. This is very much like the colour 'red' is supposed to conjure up feelings of warmth, heat, action.

Use a synonym creator. There are plenty of free ones on the Internet. Personally, I like:  www.thesaurus.com/browse/creator but there are many out there. If you want to improve your writing, 
do check around for synonyms. They will widen your scope and help you enormously to be a better
writer.

So go to it. No one is ever too busy to improve in what they really want to be.