Here’s a writing exercise everyone can benefit from, no matter what we’re working on.
Step 1. Write out the point you want to make or the scene you want to describe.
Step 2. Come up with another way to make that point or describe the scene.
Step 3. In a third version, make what you just wrote more precise and get closer to what it is you want to say or describe.
Usually the first thing we come up with is the easiest and most generic version, and it uses a lot of terms and phrases currently floating through the culture. It’s the first vocabulary set that comes to us.
At least two rounds of thinking about another way to make our point gets us closer to our own thoughts and our own expression of those thoughts. It takes us closer to writing something others will get value from.
You can do this with any piece of writing. Make it yours. Use language that carries what you want to say. Reach for what’s just beyond, beneath, or inside that first version.
You’re almost there 