A Creative Email Trick for Becoming a Plain Spoken Writer

Writing is weird. Unlike speaking, it’s not something we do naturally. And unless we train ourselves out of it, that weirdness renders some creative, but wooden and dense prose.

Speaking is a natural act. Every single human being has the ability to do it. And at a very young age. The reason why, says cognitive scientist and linguist Stephen Pinker, is because we have a language instinct.

We master this instinct as we imitate sounds made by mom and dad, brother and sister, nana and popo.

Soon we are forming one word sentences, then two and three words sentences, and, at around …read more