|  "Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
To celebrate Be Kind to Writers and Editors month, we've gathered 10 great recommendations to help you show your appreciation for the writers in your life. Writers, feel free to share these suggestions with your friends and family. If you know a writer, please be kind to the writer in your life with these 10 tips! 10 Tips to Be Kind to Writers - While writing isn't brain surgery, it does require the writer's full attention. Unless there's a fire or another catastrophic event, keep distractions to a minimum and respect the time the writer dedicates to their craft.
- Be open to listening to our ideas. Writers are often considered hermits, but it's not true! Occasionally, we writers will need to bounce an idea off another human. If we get that "Eureka!" look in our eyes, it's best to just let us to our own devices, ask later, and know we appreciate your inspiration and help.
- Rejection and criticism sting, but we'll take it in and ask for more when it's delivered in a positive and constructive manner. Give it to us in the spirit of goodwill and provide specific reasons why you didn't like or disagreed with the piece.
- You liked it? You really liked it?! Fantastic - we love hearing that readers (including those closest to us) love our work. So what did you like most about it and how did it move or help you? Please, be specific in your praise so we know you're not pandering to our egos and we can keep up the good work.
- Comment on our articles, share our writing with your friends and family, interact with us on social media, and essentially be a part of our "fan club" to help promote our work. It's not terribly easy to break into the open online, but it all starts with a support network of those closest to the writer.
- Write a positive review that highlights what you liked about the work and how other readers might benefit from reading it. Of course, if you didn't like the piece, privately provide the writer with constructive feedback.
- Respect their progress and please be supportive. Most writers aren't successful overnight and many of us moonlight in other professions (or would that be "daylight" or "sunlight" for those who haven't quit their day jobs to focus on writing?).
- Writers are sponges - we soak up everything. Send us inspiration like candid questions, complicated queries, anecdotes, articles, book recommendations, article templates, etc. Often what doesn't make its way directly into our work will indirectly influence our direction and outlook for future pieces.
- Get us out into the world from time to time. Encourage your writer to leave their work routinely and connect with other human beings. It's important to their success and health!
- Bring them a cup of coffee or favorite snack. Writers are notorious for becoming so engrossed in their work or they simply don't want to stop their progress once they're in a good groove that they neglect even their most basic needs like food and water.
Next time you've enjoyed something you read, don't take it for granted. Remember the writer behind it because as Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, "easy reading is damn hard writing." Are you a writer? Take a moment this month to be kind to yourself by taking the stress out of your article writing efforts with EzineArticles' wide variety of Article Templates! Visit the EzineArticles Shop to discover the all-new Build Your Own Article Templates Packages and the original 52 Article Templates series to get hundreds of new article ideas to build your article portfolio and your authority as an expert! Would you like to add another tip to this list? Click here to let us know - we'd love to hear from you! |
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