John Chow’s e-book had another interesting point about writing style and skill (since English is not John’s first language) and he talked about how he used Word to help with this. That struck me as a good idea, so I will try that out at least to help with some of the more cumbersome parts of my writing. Maybe I’ll use the thesaurus too, to add more exciting, fun and pithy words to my postings. (Translated to: exhilarating, pleasurable and to the point).
I am trying to the Blogger word plug in, but that does not seem to work very well right now.
I think the critical thing to do in this “job” or “business” is to continue evolving, learning, and reading. I read a lot of different blogs on finance but also blogs about writing blogs as well, to understand how a lot of people do this, and there is something to learn from everyone (not just the big sites, but the little ones too). Once you stop learning, you might as well give up (and maybe you’ve made your fortune, and that would be fine, but I haven’t, so I better keep reading).
Grammarly and Word
The other handy tool is Grammarly. Word has its own writing AI these days, but Grammarly’s is a bit better, I have found. My initial writing is usually quite weak, but if I edit things get better. You don’t have to have Grammarly write things for you, but it does help make your copy less awkward.
Remember, you are the one writing, not AI. Folks aren’t going to want to read bland AI-written copy.