The great authors did it again and again:
They incorporated personal and biographical elements into their storytelling.
Goethe incorporated personal elements into “The Sorrows of Young Werther.”
Hemingway incorporated his hunting and fishing experiences into his stories.
And the writer of the best series of all time (“The Sopranos”) – David Chase – brought his experiences with his annoying mother into the series by incorporating a very annoying female character into the series.
This should be done consciously.
If you do this unconsciously, it will read like an unresolved trauma or like an offended person who wants to “process something”.
19. Forget the first thought – and the 2nd and the 3rd and the 4th.
I have to puke.
If I have to read “Practice makes perfect” again.
Or when an author begins his text with the following passage:
“As we all know, healthy eating is very important.”
Age.
Tell me something new
You see, if you write down the first thing that comes to mind, it is often rubbish.
It is:
1. A truism (“Practice makes perfect”)
2. A cliché (“Everything’s fine”)
3. An empty phrase (“As we already know…”)
4. Political speak (“The sustainable development of a value-oriented evaluation system through the coordination of decentralized influencing factors.”)
With it:
Take your time.
Especially for the first sentence.
The rule is: the less work you put into your storytelling, the more work it is for your reader to read the tough text.
20. The first usa email list draft always sucks
Storytelling Law: The first draft is always
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Anyone who thinks differently is arrogant.
If the great writers of our time need several attempts, then you certainly do too.
James A. Michener said:
“I’m not a very good writer. But I’m a very good rewriter.”
Don’t give up if the first draft is bad.
There is no shame in this.
It is a tools to schedule your email campaigns shame when
1. you publish the bad draft.
2. you do not publish the draft and abandon it.
But if you want to be numbers become a master of your craft, then edit, revise and refine until your text shines like a polished patent leather shoe.