Tips Menulis secara Efektif

Karena dunia ini semakin berkembang ke arah dijital, menulis menjadi sesuatu yang sangat penting. Hal ini dikhususkan untuk anda yang bukan penulis. Jika anda bekerja di kantor, komunikasi utama anda adalah teks menggunakan email atau IM.

Apakah anda suka atau tidak, kemampuan anda untuk bertukar pikiran, menyatukan ide, menyampaikan visi, tergantung pada kemampuan anda menulis secara efektif. Berikut ini 10 tips yang dapat membantu anda menambah gaya dan isi dalam menulis, yaitu :

1. Buang bagian yang membosankan.

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard

2. Hilangkan kata-kata yang tidak penting.

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~Mark Twain

3. Tulis dengan sungguh-sungguh.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

4. Katakan dengan gambar.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov

5. Usahakan sederhana.

Vigorous writing is concise. ~William Strunk Jr.

6. Lakukan dengan penuh cinta. 😀

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. ~Mark Twain

7. Belajar untuk berkembang dalam kritik.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. ~Ray Bradbury

8. Menulis setiap saat.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. ~Ray Bradbury

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything. ~John Irving

9. Tulis tentang apa yang anda tahu atau sesuatu yang anda ingin tahu.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~Lord Acton

10. Tetap unik dan tidak bisa diprediksi.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~G.K. Chesterton

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~Oscar Wilde

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road to where he wants to go, I could only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto. ~Ray Bradbury

Itulah tips-tips yang dapat anda coba untuk bisa menulis secara efektif. Lakukan eksperimen dengan gaya anda masing-masing. Tanpa maju ke depan, anda akan tertinggal di belakang. 😛

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Salam,

-IT-