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How to Write Anything

The Follow-Up Is the Most Important Email You’ll Ever Write

How to master the art of the nudge

Kara Cutruzzula

Published in

Forge

6 min readMay 20, 2020

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This story is part of Forge’s How to Write Anything series, where we give you tips, tricks, and principles for writing all the things we write in our daily lives online, from tweets to articles to dating profiles.

Kara Cutruzzula

Written by Kara Cutruzzula

Writer for

Forge

Author of DO IT TODAY and DO IT FOR YOURSELF, two motivational journals. My newsletter encourages you every morning: https://bit.ly/3vpPlV3

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