Better Insights, Better Results
This is a guest post from Gary Lindberg on lessons learned as a bestselling self-published author. If you are an author, aspiring author, or hope to publish a bestseller, this might be one of the most important posts you read on what it takes to get noticed and rise to the top on Amazon.
Writing things down is a key to effectiveness. It helps you free up your mind, think on paper, and better organize your thoughts. If you don’t write things down, your mind spends more time “paper shuffling” and creates its own anxiety.
Think of knowledge in terms of pages. Solve a problem on a page.
I’ve long been a fan of writing things down to free myself up. A while back, a friend of mine got me in the habit of carrying a little yellow sticky pad everywhere I go. It lets me jot things down, wherever I go, so I never have to keep things buzzing around in my head.
Have you ever had to wait too long for somebody to make a point? Their sentences run on but leave you hanging and you have to keep it all in your head to try and follow along. They make you work too hard to follow the information. Surprisingly, it's not how long the sentences are that make them complex. It's how long it takes to complete the phrases. We understand concepts phrase by phrase, not word by word. As an author, when you know this, you can write simpler and more effectively to make your points. As a reader, now you know why some writing is harder to follow than others.
