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3 Ways to Edit Before You Write

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Find more writing & storytelling articles in the February 2025 issue of Strategies & Tactics. If you give me an article that runs to eight pages and I tell you to cut it to four, youll howl and say it cant be done, he wrote in On Writing Well. Here are three ways to edit before you write: Start with a word count.

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PR Tips For Successful Media Training

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Here are some “must-dos” along with new tips to incorporate into your media training arsenal. Good media training builds confidence. We show clients how to “read” reporters at the outset, and, as with any good training, the sessions include simulated interviews to prepare for each of these one-on-one scenarios.

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Need a Hyper-Short Message? How You Write a 4-Sentence Feature

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Want to write messages that grab attention? Learn to write compelling messages that draw readers in and move them to act. But what if you need to write a hyper-short message? Heres how to write a four-sentence feature. Continue focusing on the reader: Write about how the reader will benefit from your solution.

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The Top-8 Writing Tips for 2022

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If so, join PRSA and Ann Wylie at one of their 2022 writing Master Classes. You’ll learn to write web pages, press releases, emails, content-marketing pieces and more. As we say farewell to 2021, let’s resolve to use these writing best practices in 2022: Master a better writing process. Get FREE writing tips here.

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8 Writing Tips I’m Thankful for This Year

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That means that if you write at the 11th-grade reading level, then you’ll miss 97 percent of Americans. Most writers spend very little time getting ready to write, more time writing and the most time fixing what they’ve written. But comma-jockeying ain’t writing, and the result is some pretty tepid prose.

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This Is Why You Need to Write Creative Content

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Join PRSA and Ann Wylie at Master the Art of Storytelling , our persuasive-writing workshop, starting May 17. The biggest risk in communications is not that we might offend someone with creativity or write something that’s eye-rollingly goofy. Why creative content writing? Choose creative content writing.

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New Year’s Writing Resolutions: 6 of My Favorite Tips for 2023

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Want more proven-in-the-lab techniques for achieving your writing resolutions this year? You’ll learn to write messages that reach more readers and get the word out. But if you’ve resolved to become a better writer this year, here’s help — six of my favorite 2023 writing resolutions to make today: Make it a metaphor.

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