The Ultimate Hack to Writing Better

Let’s face it, writing can be tiring. Most writers have a love-hate relationship with the writing process. In his interview with the New York Times, author of the Hannibal series, Thomas Harris III says, “the very act of writing is a kind of torment. Sometimes you really have to shove and grunt and sweat. Some days you go to your office and you’re the only one who shows up, none of the characters show up, and you sit there by yourself, feeling like an idiot. And some days everybody shows up ready to work. You have to show up at your office every day. If an idea comes by, you want to be there to get it in.” Fellow novelist, Stephen King, lent body to this by saying if writing is sometimes tedious for other authors, to Harris it is like “writhing on the floor in agonies of frustration.”

As writers, we are always on the conquest for hacks that will make the writing process easier and the product- books, articles, poems, listicles, etc- better. We have learned and come up with ways to hack through writer’s block and made the words leap off the reader’s page. However, there is one tool that works like a charm and makes your writing more poignant. Oddly, we don’t talk about it nearly as much as we talk about things like…