Okay, so, I don’t know how successful or sensible this will be, but, I’m letting it rip. So, I’ve heard advice or read advice a lot that you should write like you talk. It’s more effective, or people relate to it better, or your ideas will be communicated more effectively. I don’t know! Is it true? I want to find out, so I’m recording what I’m saying right now and I’m going to transcribe it as today’s Substack post.
I’m noticing myself thinking, like, I want to have this, the words you’re reading be useful and of value to you, but, maybe I’m already like immediately too meta about this. Write like you talk…
Yeah, I think I know for myself that I use more formal language in writing, and less formal language when talking, and I don’t want to be wrapped up in concepts and frameworks and perspectives when trying to communicate what I think is true if it would be more useful to just say something directly. So, that could be a benefit of writing like you talk, to not get caught up in a jargon vocabulary trap that is a distraction from the actual thing you want to communicate.
It’s also nice to better see someone’s personality. Like, if you have a conversation with someone you’ll understand them better than if you read the words they write. And so, writing like you talk gives the reader your half of a conversation so they can get a better sense of who you are.
Oh, I can put this as an audio post. Yeah I’ll do that too.
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