Thank you so much, I can see you’ve put a lot of thought and effort into this reply. I’m going to come back to this later and try and internalize as much as I can.
I do like your advice about low-stakes platforms to calibrate with, ‘challenge rounds’ of editing, and leaning into extremes of a voice. Those all feel very actionable but not things I think I’ve tried yet.
“Also, don’t assume the reader will read to the end.”
That’s a good heuristic! Front load, like you say, like a newspaper article—inverted pyramid or whatever they call it.
Thank you so much, I can see you’ve put a lot of thought and effort into this reply. I’m going to come back to this later and try and internalize as much as I can.
I do like your advice about low-stakes platforms to calibrate with, ‘challenge rounds’ of editing, and leaning into extremes of a voice. Those all feel very actionable but not things I think I’ve tried yet.
That’s a good heuristic! Front load, like you say, like a newspaper article—inverted pyramid or whatever they call it.