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How to Write Anything

How to Write Anything

Rules you can use to write anything you want to write — from a book to a tweet

Forge
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3 min readMay 22, 2020

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You are a writer.

You tweet. You email. You Slack. You text. Multiple times a day, you look at a blank screen and you fill it with words — your own words written in your own style for an audience you hope to persuade, amuse, inform.

Here at Forge, we think there’s no activity more connected to the self — and no skill more improvable — than what we type into those screens. So, all this week, we’ve been publishing stories about how to write the things we write every day.

In “Tweeting is Writing, Too,” Drew Magary, a writer of columns, blogs, and novels, reminds us that Twitter is a powerful platform for ideas — big or small, fun or weird — that requires authenticity and a healthy respect for your audience.

In “How to Write an Article Millions of People Will Read,” Darius Foroux offers wisdom about writing a story that speaks to people’s concerns and aspirations (and may well go viral). It’s a writing clinic from one of Medium’s most popular authors…

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