One of my favorite pieces of advice on writing is from a post by Seth that ended with – “Write like you talk. Often.”
In drawing parallels with speaking (we don’t get talker’s block), he makes the case that the best way to write better is to write more. Even if we start by writing poorly, the process of doing more of it will push us to become clearer and crisper over time.
I was mulling the flip side of this piece of advice recently. Just as internalizing the “Write like you talk. Often” idea might do us good, what if we also internalized “Talk like you write. Intentionally?”
There’s often a lot of wisdom in the middle path.
