How Easy Is Writing Online For You? Do You Feel Like Yourself?

Writing online can be intimidating.  You are speaking to an individual reader multiplied by many, many, many more!  It's a very intimate connection to a huge audience!  Simply like nothing else you've ever experienced!

It's no wonder that many find it difficult to be just "themselves' when writing online.  It's a skill that definitely does not come naturally to many, yet, the more natural you can be via your online communications, the more opportunity you have for creating online relationships that trust you and believe in you.  

Let's just look at writing.

• When we write it's just us speaking so it's very easy to come across as talking "to" people.  But. that doesn't work so well online.  You can get by, but it's not the ideal for maximizing your opportunities. 
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• Also, when we write, it's easy to talk about yourself and write from your very own perspective. That doesn't work so well online either. Your writing style appears to be a presentation, possibly staged, cold,  resembling a term paper or research report ... definitely not authentic nor natural.

Looking back at my own experience, one of my favorite ways to get away from these more stilted ways of writing was to pretend there was a person sitting with me at my desk.  I would speak out loud to this invisible person and write the way I spoke.. This worked really well.. 
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Next what I worked on was my online personality or style. That meant, to me, defining my perspective about my writing. I established in my mind my ongoing audience, who was in it, and what were their interests.  With this defined I could then "share" what I was writing with this invisible audience.  I could imagine their questions, ask my own questions, and achieve somewhat of an intimate ongoing natural conversational style.  

What it took to perfect and cement my own natural style was a daily blogging just to myself!     I committed myself to 30 days of blogging, just to me.  By the end of the 30 days both ideas and my writing were flowing.   Am also happy to say that was more than 3 years ago and all is still good! At least, I hope you'll agree!

Whether you do it my way or via a way of your own, do find your own natural style. Being natural allows more value to come from what you write.  You show more interest in serving and helping your readers.  You are sharing.  You are "with" your audience.
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Some of what we do at today's Way is to help people be more natural in their online writing.  If you think this is a challenge for you, think about getting yourself some help.  Very few can change their style overnight.  Your first step is to consciously want it and then step 2 - do it.  Practice will make your perfect ... and natural!
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Let me know your thoughts.  Leave a comment with your experience!

In the mean time ..
Keep your business garden growing!
margie

www.todaysway.net