How to Writelike

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The ultimate goal is for you to learn how to find your own patterns—in whatever text is relevant, whenever you need them.

And how to apply what you find to your own writing in order to achieve your own goals.

That is the point: self-sufficiency.

Because developing any skill requires focus and repetition. And writing is just writing. Like, that's what you do.

It's important to have moments where you play around or where you let loose and perform, but at some point you need to sit down and do a bit of conditioning, like weight training for athletics.

If it's feeling like a trudge, focus on writing about something that you already care about. It will feel less repetitive when you write about something that you were already thinking about.

Because you shouldn't hate writing, and this is a good way to learn to get better at it, and if you get even a bit better, you'll start to enjoy it—or at least appreciate the value of it.

Here's something for you to consider: writing isn't about writing.

Writing is about thought, exploration, communication, and discovery.

It's one of the greatest human inventions, thousands of years ago its development completely changed what human beings were capable of, and you should grab the skill with both hands and use it to achieve things in your life.

Because everyone writes. Way more jobs than you think require writing skills.

Even if their work requires completely different skills, people who can write tend to perform better and advance more quickly in their jobs, because writing helps you communicate, and writing helps you learn.

And all jobs benefit from communication and learning.

The skills you learn in writing stories apply in all other writing—if you learn them properly!

Stories aren't just about telling entertaining tales, they are also about:

• observing and recording details
• sequencing events
• representing multiple points of view
• creating a credible view of the world
• having an impact on an audience

All of which apply to other areas of writing in one way or another.

Good point!

The way you learn when you're a novice is different to the way you learn when you're an expert.

So yeah, Writelike might not be right for you.

But here are a couple of things to consider:

• Are you equally good at all styles of writing, or just the one you happen to be good at it? There might be value in doing exercises in a different style.
• Can you bring something to the exercise to transform it? Writelike is not as constraining as you might think: if you're feeling confident, you can choose how you want to approach any activity, or interpret any snippet or pattern.