The Easiest Way To Fuse More Confidence in Your Writing
Can you “be yourself” and “make an impact” at the same time?
What do people mean by writing with confidence?
Simple.
When your writing oozes confidence, your audiences don’t find out that your workstation is a couch and your office wear combines a Deadpool t-shirt, a pair of boxers, and pink flip-flops.
(Go on. Quote me on this one.)
And when you lack confidence in your voice, your punches lose momentum mid-air. Boy, that’s embarrassing as hell!
So yeah, if you are a writer or a blogger, you want to make an impact. You don’t want to be ignored or buried deep under the endless pool of lame content.
How to do it? How to sound more confident to your readers?
A typical answer that everyone will throw at you is: “Just be yourself!”
Here’s what I have to add.
Stop fooling yourself and boring your audience.
Just think about a moment. Everyone writes. Let it be WhatsApp texts, Tinder bios, or a formal email. And in many ways, all of them are being themselves.
Do they all express their thoughts well? Can they all capture your attention from the get-go? Most importantly, do they all leave a lasting impact on their readers?
So yeah. Being yourself alone doesn’t make much of a difference. To create the lightning in the bottle effect: one must learn to write well.
Don’t worry! You will get there. If a Bengali medium Indian guy with a stammering issue can do it, earning a full-time living in the process, so can you.
Here’s how.
Know what you are talking about
Clean and confident writing comes from clean and confident thinking.
If you don’t have absolute mastery over something, you won’t sound as confident as someone who has.
That’s exactly why most aspiring writers lack confidence. It’s because they are not well-versed in the topics they are trying to write about — and they know it.
