How To Build A List – How to Build A Buyers List

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Article Writing: Most people have a hard time writing… even more have a problem writing well.

One of my mentors just posted an article on his blog on how to get from a blank screen to something to a ready article, and instead of posting this as a comment, I decided to make it an article on its own right…

He says that all article writing is rewriting, which many of us know.

He says: dictate your article, if you must and then have it transcribed… and then edit it.

He says: have someone read it out loud so you can catch what needs editing.

He says: read the last paragraph first and then the second to last, etc… and you’ll detect structural errors in your text that way…

It is all designed to create distance between yourself and your writing.

I am dyslexic, and I use a free software, FreeNaturalReader to read my writing back to me.

I set it to 1.5x speed, sometimes even 1.8x to make it read faster, so I can hear, instead of individual words, whole sentences and the relationships between them.

The other reason is that when you wrote something, you seem to know what’s there, and you read what is supposed to be there, instead of what is.

One of my friends makes that mistake in everything he writes.

Just like 99% of the room in a Landmark seminar when the leader instructs us all to close our eyes, writes something on the chalk-board and then asks one participant, randomly picked, to read what is on the board.

The person reads: Paris in the spring… the room murmurs in agreement. The leader asks the person to move closer to the board, read again, and move closer and read again and again, until he asks him to touch every word on the board. That’s when the person and everyone in the room notices the second the… Paris in the the spring… We were all blind to it, because it didn’t make sense… and neither does your writing, for the most part… lol

Having a machine/software read it is a great wake-up call…