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improving your writing overnight with the rule of 24-Guaranteed -zz
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Few things in life are guaranteed. This is especially true if you are a writer.But this one rule — The Rule of 24 — is guaranteed. Iron clad.Doesn’t matter who you are, what you write, how you write, or how hard you try to prove this wrong. you won't and you can't!
here's what you do:
Sit on what you think is your final draft for 24 hours.
No, really. That’s it.
No matter what you’re writing — a novel, a screenplay, a blog post, a landing page, a letter — if you do the best you can on it and then wait until the next day to go over it again …
… you have my iron-clad, 100 percent guarantee that you’ll make at least a tweak or two that will make it better.
Every time. Dependable as death, taxes and somebody voting for Kate Gosselin.
I know it sounds ridiculously simple. I know it sounds like the other shoe will drop any moment. But there are millions of writers out there who don’t do it — even though it’s absolutely guaranteed to improve their writing.
It may be a typo you didn’t see the day before. It may be a better choice of word, a less-is-more edit, or a wholesale shift in creative or structural strategy.
But you will change something.
And the piece will be better for it.
What if there’s nothing to fix the next day?
Wow. There’s not one single thing you can do to make that piece better, huh?
Nothing at all you can tweak to make it just a little bit clearer, a little bit more compelling, a little bit punchier than it was before? Why, you must be the best writer on the planet.
Or … you aren’t.
Nobody’s that perfect. The piece might be exceptional or even brilliant, but that’s not the point.
The point is that if you come back to it the next day, every time, you open yourself to the opportunity to make it even better.
So there it is. The Rule of 24, available to all, completely free of charge, and unconditionally guaranteed.
Still don’t believe me? Want to write a post about how wrong I am? Good for you.
Let the draft sit for 24 hours first, though. It’ll be even better when you come back and find something brilliant you forgot to put in there.
Or you can slip it into the comments. No waiting required.
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Post comment Comment (4 replies)
- Reply fangcao1
- that's true,we had better review what we write after it has cooled down.there must be an improvement to have it done.
then you will easily find some inappropriate words,sentences ,structures,or even your ideas.
- Reply rainecho415
- Every time when we look back at what we have written before, we can surprisingly find many mistakes or unsatisfied points. Not only the article, but also ourselves used to be.
From time to time, we should look back and reflect on ourselves!
- Reply empty~empty
- However ,the inspiration would flush away soon as time goes on.
