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  • Hello, hello, hello and welcome to Q & A TuesdayDid you see that?  I grabbed a dust particle

  • That was very, very skillful.  

  • Q:  So today’s question comes from a far away distant landIt’s from Dubai, I’ve

  • been to Dubai.  I really like Dubai.  I had a really good time in DubaiWell

  • tell you as a little side story.  I was so nervous that I wasn’t going to wear enough

  • clothes.  I actually went out and bought a lot of clothes to cover my body and then

  • I went out to dinner one night, and this chick had on hot pants.  I was like, “What’s

  • going on?”   

  • Anyway, back to today’s questionIt’s from Dr. Nazarene and she writes:

  • Greetings from DubaiIf there was one tip that you could give me to improve my writing

  • besides practicing, what would you suggestSmooches

  •   A:  Dr. Nazarene, I love that she wrote smooches,

  • thank you so muchSmooches, right back to youSo I never can give just one tip

  • because I’m the kind of girl likes to give a lot of tips.  I just like to talk to a

  • lot if you haven’t figured that out yetBut I have two tips for you today and the

  • first one is one that has improved my writing dramatically and I love when I do this

  • Josh gets very happy when I do this and it’s all about reading fiction, right.

  •   Most of us especially for in any kind of like

  • academic setting or were very driven and we always wanted to do self-improvement stuff

  • We kind of forget about the whole world of fiction and when you read fiction, it improves

  • your writing dramaticallyWhyBecause fiction’s all about story telling and the

  • best writing of every type tells storiesIt’s how we humans learn bestWe love

  • get hooked into a really good story and just, we just love it!

  •   You probably can’t hear that but I got a

  • little distracted because of Poncho, the dogPoncho, do you want to come over hereHi

  • You want to say hi to everybodyPonchoHi, PonchoHi cutieSo you could see

  • why I got distracted because he’s really sweet and he’s kind of like meYeah.

  •   Okay so, back to fictionSo last summer

  • it was really funny, Josh was telling me aboutHe’s like, “ You know you read so much

  • as far as business development, self-development.”  He’s like, “You just need to get a good

  • fiction novel,” and I said, “You know what, youre right.”  So I pulled down

  • my Kindle and I was just looking around, there’s samples on Kindle.  I wasn’t really paying

  • attention to what I hit the sample of and it was called Knight of Pleasure

  •   I didn’t realize that I got myself hooked

  • into some kind of trashy eroticaIt was awesomeIt was so freaking good!  I tell

  • you, I was like, “WooShould I be reading this?”  Like it was just amazingAnd

  • then that same summer, I got myself hooked into the whole Twilight series, and I don’t

  • care if you think it’s cheesy.  I absolutely loved it!  I watched the movies and I read,

  • then I watched the movies, then I readBut I’ll tell you, it absolutely improved

  • my writing ability.  

  •    

  • It’s just new words were coming into my vocabulary and I just started making pictures

  • in my mind, and I found out that it absolutely translated to everything that I writeNow

  • the second tip and this is one that requires a little bit of courageWhat I would suggest

  • if youre really committed to improving your writing is to gather some of your friends

  • together, friends that are smart and ideally are writers as well, and have a little bit

  • of a writing feedback party.  

  • Now, the way I would do this is I would send out my friendspieces of my writing beforehand

  • So send them some articles, you know maybe a half a chapter of a book depends on what

  • youre working on and have them really give you their honest feedbackTell them to

  • be compassionateYou got to be gentle but you do want the truthFind out where theyre

  • getting lostFind out if they just feel like your sentences are, you know just a little

  • bit awkward.   

  • Maybe youre not being very clear in how you describe thingsAnd, if you don’t

  • have friends that you can do this with, I would highly recommend you hire someone to

  • give you feedback.  I’ve gotten feedback on my copy, best thing in the worldPeople

  • point out, you know what I got lost here, this headline isn’t workingIt’s fantastic

  • So those are two really good tips to improve your writing that have got nothing to do with

  • practiceWasn’t that good?  I thought it was goodSmooches back to you!

  •   Okay so, hopefully that was useful.  I found

  • it entertainingThe dog was certainly entertainingIf you like this video, like itLeave a

  • commentIf you’d like more, you could check out what we got going on on the rest

  • of the channel somewhere or come and see me at marieforleo.com for more good stuff

  • Thanks again and I’ll catch you next time!

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